May 2012

Tips for Taking Baby and Au Pair on a Business Trip

by cv harquail May 30, 2012

What can you do to make it easier on you, your au pair and your baby when you all take a business trip together? I’m a first time host mom who’s going to be taking her au pair with her on a business trip with my 8 month old daughter. My au pair understands that […]

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Paying Stipends When Au Pairs Overlap

by cv harquail May 29, 2012
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When your departing au pair has finished training your new au pair, and they are both in your house but only one of them is working, do you (still) need to pay your departing au pair? If your outgoing au pair still has a week or two on her contract, you must still pay her, […]

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Do you celebrate your Au Pair on Mother’s Day? (poll)

by cv harquail May 11, 2012
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Searching through the racks of Mother’s Day cards looking for something just right for my step-mom and mother-in-law, I noticed just how many Mother’s Day cards there are these days for people who aren’t mothers: “You’re like a Mother to Me” “To a special person on Mother’s Day” “Celebrating you for all you do” It […]

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How should an Au Pair handle travelling with the Host Family, for 5 weeks?

by cv harquail May 10, 2012
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Au Pair Somebody posed this question on a different post, and I’m repositioning it here, along with the responses from the APM community. Please join the conversation! Well this is my situation and I am so pissed off because it took me by surprise! My host family decided to move from Colorado to Virginia in […]

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Quick Check In

by cv harquail May 4, 2012

Blogging gurus advise that, if you’ve been absent from your blog and not posting for a while, that you shouldn’t worry about it OR apologize for being MIA.  But for me, it feels like the longer I go without a post, or without an explanation or a comeback plan, the worse it feels. Long time […]

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