AIBU to expect au pair to teach children more?
My main reason for hiring ap is to help my 2 ds (3 and 4yo) learn French. Ap KNOWS this 100%, she isn't here to improve her English, it's already perfect.
They haven't started speaking any more French at all and it's been almost a month! I want her to help them learn French vocabulary by looking at books and pointing at words etc. I know he has tried because since her being here two of our lovely French children's books have been ripped whilst she was with them! They seem to mainly be playing with Lego/ toys which is not what I want as they already know colours, shapes etc.
She needs to speak French even when telling then off- ds2 had accident and she didn't speak French at all throughout dealing with it!
I am really frustrated by all this and really questioning why I've even bothered to have au pair, should I be? Are my hopes too high? And if so, what can I do to make her do her job better!?
AIBU?
Is my au pair useless?
winewithcakeplease · 23/07/2015 12:21
ah well it's a wind up...
I did know someone once who sent her children to Wix:-
www.wix.wandsworth.sch.uk/
as far as I know this is bilingual. she did have au pairs who if possible spoke French to help out with the odd phrase etc but they were certainly not teaching the children French.
Why would you tell a child living in UK off in French if there was an accident even it's by a French teacher this will confuse the child.
You want proper tuition in French then hire a tutor.
Also housekeeper/nanny - which is it? and midnight isn't awful, I regularly got in then in my teens/20s/30s and functioned perfectly well, forgetting keys just remind her!
and also someone here mentioned 'toi' - that is extremely rude even with an au pair - always use 'vous' - s'il vous plait.
Just get the kids watching Tots TV clips on Youtube. That's how mine learned. By 4 dd knew all her colours and numbers and parts of the body in French. Ds (who's non-verbal) could point to them if he heard the words.
Of course dd dropped French as soon as she could despite my huge efforts and took up media studies instead. 
Bloody kids.
It was all that screen time you gave her, You - she went for the medium, not the message.
Damn it! I think you could have a point there.
Oh well. All that wasted time in front of a screen and now she's doing a degree in cyber security. If I'd been a better parent, she could have been doing a degree in bilingual cyber security.
Oh what a twat I am not realising there was more than one page 
sorry
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