by cv harquail
June 21, 2010
Eleven Au Pairs and 12 revisions after first being written, our Host Family Handbook is now, officially, “long”.
Excluding examples of kids’ and au pairs’ schedules, and excluding the basic information about emergency phone numbers and the like, our rules/guidelines section runs 16 pages, with almost 4500 words.
Is that too long?
Host Family Handbook: Everything you’ve ever [...]
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by cv harquail
February 4, 2010
I’m a believer that different members of a family have different privileges and responsibilities, depending on their roles and their ages. Parents have more privileges than do children, and employers have more privileges than do employees. The rules that we follow can be different, as long as they are fair.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, uses [...]
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