Grateful for advice from people with their own teenagers!
I have an au pair who's nearly 20. She's a nice girl, intelligent, and very good with the kids. However, I have concerns. She seems to have a lot of prescription drugs and I have sometimes had some difficulty getting her to wake up/get up, so I don't find her an appropriate carer for small children and am sending her back to her mum.
My question is about the revolting slummy conditions she lives in! We live in a nice house that's generally tidy and clean, but she keeps her room as a total pigsty. For example, we came back from a trip on Sunday, she has clearly tipped out her clothes in a pile in the middle of the floor, and they have lain there since. Mixed up with them and spread around is a load of cheese rind. There's a 1/2 empty giant bottle of cheap red wine by the bed, and the room smells a bit like a pub on Sunday morning. There are weird clumps of hair all over the place. She finally got around to taking off the sheets and putting them in the wash on Tuesday after about 2 months - I've just gone in and seen that 3 days later she's sleeping on the bare mattress and pillows, even though she has a spare clean set, and the other set that she washed is also now dry (and I have had stern words before about sleeping with pillows without bothering to put on the pillowcases). There are heaps of make up all over and dirty glasses. The top drawer is lying open and it's a mish mash of loose tampax and chocolate biscuits. All the wardrobe doors are open and there are bags and shoeboxes higgledy-piggledy all over the room.
Is this normal?????? Thank God she doesn't smoke!!!! It's truly repulsive.
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Is this revolting mess normal for a 19yo?
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Romanarama · 12/11/2010 08:56
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