by cv harquail
February 6, 2010
I got an email from “Undercover Host Mom” — she is struggling with this dilemma:
Although we have a strict and absolute non-smoking policy, and discussed this before we matched with our au pair, I have come to wonder whether she is smoking in our car and maybe even in the house. (It’s hard to tell [...]
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by cv harquail
April 15, 2009
Sometimes a host parent’s complaints about an au pair seem legitimate. Sometimes the complaints don’t seem legitimate. And sometimes, the host parent just really isn’t sure.
Here’s a long request for advice from Anonymous . She sets it up as though she might be a bad person… and let me tell you that by the [...]
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