[Closed] Au pair

Au pair's what?

This thread can only go well.

many innuendos are incoming.

I saw them live at Portsmouth Locarno Ballroom in about 1982. Really good it was.

You mean in terms of intercultural communication?

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**Apparently** there are certain sites that provide all the information you need 😆
In video form..

Has anyone had any experience with Au pair's ?

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Good effort from a technical point of view. For some reason it's not as funny as it should be. Strange, all the components are there.

That's what I want for Christmas ..oops wrong thread.

For some reason it's not as funny as it should be

The reason is that you aren't the target audience.

I am ....and it tickles me still.

I am ....and it tickles me still.

Get an eastern euro one aff gumtree

We've had two au pairs through https://www.aupairworld.com. Tried a couple of agencies before getting our first au pair but their suggestions were useless. Aupairwold is a bit like a dating site - you post your profile and the au pairs post theirs and you contact each other. Both our au pairs have been great. Current au pair is on her second year with us. She does after school for a few hours a day, holiday full days, and 3 nights babysitting for us, and works at a cafe to earn extra money for herself in the morning during school term. The babysitting is superb - my wife and I can stay out as late as we wish without worrying about the babysitter, and I can do swimming and cycling in the evenings.

An Au Pair is the person you employ in order to avoid prosecution for leaving your child alone while you go to work. That's it; that is the most you should expect.

If you happen to get someone who is really good with children and who acts in a professinal manner in your home then that's a bonus.

Au Pairs have zero qualification and usually zero experience in the field of child care. Their main motivation is to find a way to have someone pay for them to be in the country they are working in so that they can have a good experience. If it were different, they'd be nannies and get qualified in that field.

I get the challenges of child care really well, and I get the problem with the sheer bloody cost of it. But I'm amazed that people still think it's a good idea to emplopy a random teenager or twenty something to look after your kids when you know nothing about them and have no means by which to be sure of their credentials in the field of child care.

I know two people who've been through five Au Pairs in three years each.

We're on our second nanny (because the first one left to have a baby) in six years.

Look at qualified and registered child minders if you need to reduce the cost.

I think you've missed the point, aren't they a speedy vehicle to divorce 😉

I am interested in this thread, but not for all the right reasons.

Joking aside I think my wife and I are about to enter a stage of childcare mayhem. Thanks for sharing that link SL2000.

I know two people who've been through five Au Pairs in three years each.

Live in Childcare then.

So, as much as I’d like to dive in taking the piss..I’m not. I’m going to be really boring and mention that plenty of folks do this sort of thing, most to embed themselves in a new culture, learn to speak the language and maybe have a bit of a holiday out of it too.

My Mrs did Au Pair work during Uni breaks in Italy and loved it.

There is a thread on here somewhere where a poster asked us lot for advice because his daughter wanted to do the exact same thing and he was crapping himself over the stories he’d heard.
Seek it out, plenty of advice on there.

Boringly helpful, soz.. and I’m not a funsponge in disguise.. 😛

Crude comment incoming,

MUST RESIST.

Ok, I’ll bite, are we discussing pears to eat yes?

aren't they a speedy vehicle to divorce

I can't even imagine how introducing a young, attractive (usually) Women into a home and then asking her to bond with the young children the parents don't have time for will in ANY way cause problems? 😉

It's a toss up between what makes Mum snap first... When Baby calls the Au Pair 'Mummy' or the first time the Au Pair makes eye contact with Dad at the wrong time, on the wrong day.

It's a plan with zero drawbacks.

I hired a Childminder, he's a lovely Mummsy Lady of around 50.

Having seen an ongoing court case where an au pair was harming a child in her care, i’m Not so interested anymore 🙁

Why not get a pair of au pears 8)

Thought I might end up having to justify myself here...

We've employed a couple of nannies for two years as well. Can't say I was massively happier with their childcare than with the au pairs'.

If you want qualifications from your au pair you can get them: Our first au pair was a 25 year old Spanish guy with a primary school teaching degree. Our current au pair is unqualified but she's in her late twenties, barely drinks, and is really caring with the children.

My wife and I have plenty of time for our kids. She works 4 days a week so does two afternoons with them. I work 5 days a week but work from home for 3 of those so see loads of them and eat meals with them - but I do have to work all day and an au pair makes that possible. Rather than me sticking them in front of the tv after school our au pair can get them doing something fun or productive.

The only caveat I would have is driving: we chose au pairs with driving licences but don't let our current au pair drive because her driving standard is so poor.

Good work sl2000.

"Yes love I'm just taking the au pair out for a driving lesson again......."
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I knew i was setting myself up for a fall here 😆

Thanks for all the comments though, it early days an im just thinking about it

my situation is im already divorced* and have two children 4 and 7, childcare is pretty much covered with school but id be looking for help with school runs twice a week (a walk down the road) and some babysitting. the main reason is i need help with my elderly mother who lives around the corner (just checking on her each day, unloading the food delivery, popping to the post office ect), never really considered driving but i guess it would be handy to get a pick up from the pub on a Friday.

*The girlfriend may go a bit mental though as i wont let her move in.

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Well, well if you won’t let the GF move in I suspect the decision to let an Au Pair move in is going to be tricky to say the least..but..but I admire your requirements.. clearly thought out.

Firstly as a single dad you may have to accept you’ll only get male au pairs. I imagine many women would not want (or be allowed by their parents) to take the job.

Its been many years ago but we had a long list over 15 years, some great - the last one stayed 3 years - some terrible and fired or resigned in a week or two. Plus of course many who where good/ok and stayed 6 months to a year.

Ours did a variety of work roughly 50/50 child care and housework. If you combined the housework and baby sitting we spent much less money than on cleaner/baby sitter. We never let them drive.

You have to be comfortable with another person living in the house and have the space, extra food bill too.

every now and then, just when you think all threads are about singlespeeds or BMW’s,one comes along to brighten the day! Thank you OP!

S****s.
We regularly get the bus from school with my son's friend and his au pair .
She's Colombian(as is the mammy),is studying , gets a travel card , phone and pocket money . She's happy enough despite the little boy talking to her like a servant. 🙁

[french accent]Only ze ones from space....[/french accent]

Zis ees absolutement parfait! Eet has had me in, ow you say, the steetches.
Tres funny!

Hat!