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Open Thread: Rooting for Rosie

by cv harquail May 3, 2014

Today’s open thread celebrate’s New Jersey’s Rosie Napravnik, who’s riding Vicar’s In Trouble in today’s Kentucky Derby. The Derby, and Rosie’s chance to make history, may or may not be on your radar screen for the weekend. But in our house, the run up to our annual Derby Party, plus the last week of classes, […]

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Open Thread: April 19

by cv harquail April 19, 2014

Welcome to our Weekend Open Thread! Open threads are for comments on any subject at all, including past posts, things we haven’t posted on, what you’ve been thinking or doing, etc. You can even let me know if there’s a topic you think I should queue up for the coming week. Have you responded […]

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Open Thread: April 11

by cv harquail April 12, 2014

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Open Thread: April 5th

by cv harquail April 5, 2014

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Open Thread: March 29

by cv harquail March 29, 2014

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Open Thread: March 22

by cv harquail March 22, 2014

Welcome to our Saturday Open Thread! Open threads are for comments on any subject at all, including past posts, things we haven’t posted on, what you’ve been thinking or doing, etc. as long as it follows our basic comments policy. This thread will be open for a full weekend, from today until the evening of […]

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Notes About The Blog: What’s been happening behind the scenes at AuPairMom

by cv harquail March 9, 2014

You might be wondering what’s going on here at AuPairMom, what with the revised blog formatting and my efforts to post more often. I’ve finally put the wheels in motion to ‘upgrade’ AuPairMom so that it works more effectively for you and for me. AuPairMom has got itself a consultant, Shawn.

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Helping Your Au Pair Navigate Health Care Costs & Insurance

by cv harquail February 24, 2014

When an au pair is injured or gets ill, their health insurance is supposed to cover their care. But sometimes managing the both getting care and getting it paid for is more than any of us can handle. Even those of us host parents who have “good” health insurance can get beaten down by […]

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Host Family Abandoned My Daughter! Should she rematch, or come home?

by cv harquail February 12, 2014

Dear AuPairMoms, I’m a mom from South Africa. My dear daughter, S, has just arrived in America for a year au pairing. She completed her orientation week in New York, loving everything about it, and travelled to a nearby town to meet her Host Family last Friday. We had all been skyping the family since November and were […]

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Do Our Careful Reviews of Au Pair Applications Actually Make A Difference?

by cv harquail February 1, 2014

Awesome Contributor and Host Mom Dorsi asks: “If you were to revisit the applications of your best and worst Au Pairs, what would you learn about making a good choice?”, Dorsi asks. Would you actually learn…. anything? The Oh-So-Wise ShouldBeWorking replies: “What kills me about how fabulous our current match is is that there was […]

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