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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree.  The LCC knows it would kill the program
To take that position.

I disagree that driving an older child (over 5) to practice and dropping him/her off and any other carpool is “babysitting.”  Or caring for another child.

So this premise is totally wrong.

And as someone said, au pairs are covered by your driving insurance. So god forbid anything happens, you and her are covered. As is the other child.

By Felicia. [/quote]

Yes because insurance is going to cover the emotional burden of having killed a child that should have never been in your care to start with.

Bye* Felicia indeed!
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Now you are getting ridiculous.

She kills your child -- OK and not an emotional problem.
Kills someone else kid -- somehow she will be more upset because the child "shouldn't have been in the car."

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Neither is nor would be okay but that other kids wouldn't be dead and would have be saved if the contract had been respected.

There's been a case of an AP killing one of her host kids on the road, it's horrific and I am sure for the AP it is the same emotional load to carry (I don't know if she is in Jail or not, the news never fully followed up), but as a host mom would you want to carry the guilt of your AP having killed your best friend's child just because you felt entitled to bypass her visa regulations?

It's not because you can potentially get away with stuff that the risk is worth the reward, in this case, the only reward regarding Car pooling is mostly for the other parents and host parents rather than he AP even if she appreciates the chance of only picking and dropping off her host kids once a week.

There are hundreds of threads about the small and big mistakes and lapse in judgement APs makes, on the road and outside the road, why you would be willing to carry the guilt that would come with any kids potentially getting unnecessarily hurt under the care of your AP, that could easily be avoided if one follow the rules, just for convenience is beyond me.

Do what you feel like, and I hope you will proudly own up to your chances if and when things go wrong, but don't pretend that what you do is okay, and that it's a totally acceptable thing to do, as if it was it wouldn't be against the visa regulations.

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