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Follow Up: Rude Comments about Au Pairs– How to respond
by cv harquail May 19, 2009I was thinking again about our conversation around "Myths about au pairs: Au Pair = "Hottie" , and ideas about how to respond when people make rude comments to us host parents about au pairs. One au pair commented that she was concerned that If people make these sorts of comments in your au pair’s [...]