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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honey, we paid our au pair $300/week for one child and we ended up getting screwed over at the end.  You don't know what you are talking about, unless cultural exchange to you just involves hanging out at the mall, only finding other girls from your country to gossip with, or sitting in your room all day watching hulu and skyping with your friends back home. [/quote]

Honey!! I’d love to see you engaging in a different country. With a different language, traditions, culture, sense of humor, weather, without ANY family and friends and living in a house with a bitchy mom that complains about her Au pair not being enough mother for her children. If you can afford $300 dlls plus housing and paying an agency, why don’t you just quit your job and do it by yourself? I’m sure you can’t handle it any better sweetie. [/quote]

In America, women can work and have their own lives and it's not something to be ashamed of. Women are not expected to stay home any more than dads are. [/quote]

Seriously, the PP is probably one of those who gets jealous of the au pair for being around the kids more[/quote]

I really hate divisive comments like this.  Host mothers are not "jealous" of their au pairs.  Are you in seventh grade?!  At best, we are disappointed that our society does not value working mothers, and as a result, we are forced to constantly balance our careers - which we have spent the last X years pursuing - and our children, who are the most important people in our lives.  I have literally never been jealous of any of my child care providers.  I've been grateful for them.  Disappointed in them at times.  Amazed by them.  But jealous of them because they are "around my kids" while I'm working?  No.

And this bullshit "why don't you just quit your job and do it by yourself?"  Could you be less supportive?  If you don't want to be a child care provider, go do something else.  And if you, down the road, decide that you'd like to have a career and a family, and you need to rely on childcare to make that happen, you can thank the countless women before you who didn't "quit" and instead figured out a way to do both.  Dumbass.[/quote]

+1000  I'm not jealous of someone who is in their 20s. Been there, done that and happy to have a healthy family and bank account now.  
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