Hello everyone.
Since January I have lovely au-pair in my family, she has been okay with her duties just lately it seems to me that she is getting lazy but also I am not sure if I am not asking too much of her. I am single mum with a single child.
I pay her 80 pounds a week and her duties are:
1hr in the morning with my only child - breakfast, doing HW, get dressed, brush teeth, play in the spare time, then take to school (walking distance)
2.5-3hrs in the afternoon - collect from school, give a snack, then play, make a simple dinner for him, prepare a bath/shower and that is it.
She is making breakfast and dinner for my son most of the days, cleaning kitchen and floors after meal, loading and unloading dishwasher, tidying up living room/my sons bedroom every day, making him a bed of course, preparing his waterbottle and books for school, helping him with homework, doing most of the washing and drying clothes, feeding cat sometimes, just small bits and pieces around the house that really dont take a lot of time.
Plus she is cleaning my house every week for 3hrs(kitchen, bathrooms, living room, her bedroom and my sons bedroom), does 3 hours of ironing a week, babysitting about once a week + every second Saturday.
Sometimes I am going out more (maybe 3 times a week but it is not really often) and also about once a week I am a bit late from work so she stays with my son 2/3 hrs more - until 7/8pm instead of 6.30pm and sometimes she babysits overnight - I am coming back arround 9am in the morning next day.
Totally it is 26 hours with cleaning, ironing + as I said babysittings and little bits and pieces arround house.
She has own bedroom, she can help herself in the fridge (My grocery bills are around 10 pounds higher (per week) since she came), TV in her room, Wi-fi, etc.
So, what do you think? Should I talk to her? Mostly she is not doing all the ironing and cleaning properly.