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[skookumchuck]

Are you suggesting the au pair you hired has a voice in your decisions on how you raise your children?

[baxtr → skookumchuck]

An au pair usually lives in your home and takes care of the children for 6-8 hours a day, for 6-12 months. Are you suggesting she shouldn’t have a voice?

[skookumchuck → baxtr]

> Are you suggesting she shouldn’t have a voice?

Yes. The parents can choose to listen to the au pair's opinions, or not, but the decisions are made by the parents.

[pesmhey → skookumchuck]

Being able to voice an opinion and have it be heard, although not necessarily followed, is kind of the definition of "having a voice" in this context.

[skookumchuck → pesmhey]

Being seated on the board was mentioned as "having a voice", and that is a powerful position.

[echaozh → skookumchuck]

Yes, but the actual education is carried out by the au pair. Like it or not, if she doesn't like your decision, she may act otherwise. Execution is more important than decision.

[ericd → baxtr]

She can make suggestions, but at the end of the day, the children are the parents' long-term responsibility, not the au pair's.