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Getting an Au Pair

antodeco · 2018-12-19 11:05:29

Hi all, Looking for some help. My wife is looking to go back to work full time in the new year, and as a result are looking for a live in Au Pair. We both (will) work Mon - Fri. Myself, I'll leave about 7:15am and my wife about 6am. She returns about 4pm and myself about 7pm. We have 2 children (1 is mid to late teens, and…

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#32 25-01-2019 02:10PM

Tigerandahalf

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Fair enough. I just think with very young kids it is very difficult with feeding, tantrums, toilet training, night wake ups, etc. It can be a tense house when that stuff is going on and I don't think it would be easy for an au pair to settle in that environment.

I'd be more open to it when they are a bit older. It would be great to get a certain amount of time to yourself and have the au pair do weekend/evening drop offs to various things.

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