If you’ve ever hired an au pair you probably, like most families, dread the yearly au pair search. If you’re new to the au pair game, you’ve probably also heard the frightful legends of unhappy au pairs disappearing in the middle of the night. Only to be replaced by a different surly teenager who lugs […]
Do you find it tricky to manage your au pairs?
Do you wish they could just get on with it, without you continually nagging about washing left in the dryer, forgotten packed lunches and not coming home to find your kids in a zombie state slumped in front of the telly again?
First world au pair problems as it turns out are causing a whole heap of anxiety in households across the globe, and it’s not just hosting parents who are tearing their hair out.
Au pairs are pretty damned fed up that their host families are terrible communicators who demand too much and explain too little.
Our research at the Awesome Au Pair has unearthed an unspoken truth about the modern au pair, host family relationships and it’s this,
