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Re: Question about au pair étiquette....

On the table manners/ getting dressed thing, I think you need to just keep insisting with your children and hope (again) she reads between the lines. I do not like open confrontation, but I found with some passive aggression ( eg ranting to myself about the state of the house when I wanted our old a...
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Topic: Question about au pair étiquette....
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by C'est moi
Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:42 pm

Re: Question about au pair étiquette....

We've had both scenarios - one who drank tea and ate biscuits with us every night in front of the tele ( we all loved it) and another who was in her room every second she wasn't on duty. I agree with a previous poster who suggested positioning it from the 'don't feel obligated to hang out with us' a...
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Topic: Question about au pair étiquette....
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by C'est moi
Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:33 pm

Re: MIL

I have no grief over my sil's kids to transfer. I have other nieces and nephews I adore. I'm entirely indifferent to her children, despite them living very close. I think it's an odd way to be though. I do however have wonderful memories of time spent with my own grandmother and warm feelings about ...
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Topic: MIL
Replies: 27
by C'est moi
Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:31 am

Re: MIL

If you are confident in your MIL's ability to keep your child safe, I think you have to ask the question "why not?!" My MIL lived about 2hours away when our eldest was little and started having the odd sleepover from the age of 2. I believe that extended family, especially grandparents, ar...
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Topic: MIL
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by C'est moi
Tue Feb 03, 2015 3:03 am

Re: staying married for the kids?

I just want to say how heart breaking it was to read your post. I absolutely do not believe that marriage is a sacred entity, and in certain circumstances it is absolutely the right thing to go your separate ways. Obviously as a stranger, I have no idea at all whether a divorce is the right thing fo...
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Topic: staying married for the kids?
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by C'est moi
Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:46 pm