To be cross with my au pair?

[MrsWentworth]

We have a Polish au pair, who gets my DD1 and DD2 ready for school while I get baby DD3 sorted out. It has been very cold here over the past couple of days and I asked her to make sure the DDs had their hats on. I had to go to the gym early today, so the au pair had to take the children to school. She has access to one of our cars in theory, but doesn't drive, so had to take them on the bus.

When I got back from the gym, the hats were still on the table in the hall, so she had obviously forgotten to put them on. AIBU to want to send her back to Poland?

I had a feeling Gulag would entice you in Stewpot.

Did she take a push chair on the bus?

My son's still in summer uniform (ie shorts and short sleeves). Doesn't wear his jumper. Carried his coat into school because he wasn't cold. Perhaps they refused to wear their hats because they always get hot heads when you make them wear them

Well, this is what happens if one must employ untrained peasants.

Ah, there's nothing like a good comedy thread to accompany my morning coffee .

What's for lunchtime entertainment Pootle? I'm still in bed waiting for the hospital to call, need you to start a new thread please

It's not that cold if you are in the UK! She forgot the hats - big deal...

Send her back to Poland? Don't be such a woolly liberal! Siberia at the very least, shurely?

Get the poor, hatless children to hound her through the streets en route to Victoria Coach Station whilst pelting her with broken Lego and cat sick though. Otherwise the au pair will never learn humility. Let alone the awful consequences of Hats Left On Tables In The Hall.

sack the bloody bitch! i mean imagine forgetting the hats, the world will stop turning arrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!