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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not the right forum to be making this complaint. The nanny troll is going to make fun of you for being cheap and what else would you expect from an underpaid, practically enslaved foreign worker?

That being said, I understand completely. Our AP shared Pringles from her room with our two kids yesterday and I was annoyed. There's a reason why I don't buy them and [b]turn a blind eye to our "no food eaten in the house other than the dining areas/kitchen" policy for the APs that hide the junk in their room.[/b] No, a "special shelf in the pantry" doesn't cut it. My curious 3 year old is not going to "respect" an unopened treat in an easily accessible pantry shelf and I don't want to hear the continual whining of "why can't I have an Oreo?"

Is your LCC a good one that would support you? Maybe AP just needs another view (i.e., the LCC confirming that a HF does NOT have to buy an AP Oreos whenever she desires). [/quote]

So you won’t allow food in their bedroom and they’re not allowed to keep it in the kitchen so where should the AP keep it?[/quote]

Every AP has kept food in their bedroom. We've just verbally told them to go ahead, but we reserve the right to go in if we're smelling something awful (like too much trash/something rotting) or following an ant trail, at which point we might actually enforce the "no food anywhere else" policy that's in our handbook.

And if AP keeps it in the kitchen, they can. But we do let the kids go and get their own snacks from the easily accessible pantry, so there is a danger they'll ask for whatever it is unless the AP is smart enough to hide it/put it on a higher shelf (and you would think this is obvious, but APs do not always have common sense). Our current AP apparently has no problem sharing junk food though...[/quote]

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