Advice on offer of schoolgirl home help for a month

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Hi, a friend contacted me to say a 17yr old german girl that her aunt knows and recommends wants to stay with a British family for a month. She wants bed / board in exchange for help around the house. Any suggestions as to how much you would ask her to do?

I am a SAHM. We have quite a large house over 3 and a bit floors and i do the cleaning alongside a cleaner that we have for 3 hours a week. I also have a 1yr old DS who is very friendly /sociable but i am rather protective in terms of leaving him with people i don't know. He has just started going to a CM for 3 hours 1 day a week at the moment and i take him to various toddler groups. I quite like the idea but i'm just not sure what she could do.

How much would her keep cost you? £25-30 a week

That's about 5-10 hrs a week

Just let her play with the baby, wash the dishes, hang the clothes out & some ironing

It's a generous gesture o your part rather than you getting any major gain out of the situation

Good perspective. And good point about the ironing. I'd forgotton ironing existed since i stopped working.

I don't know about German teenagers, but I strongly suspect if you wanted a British teenager to do your ironing, you would have to teach them how first.

Definitely evening babysitting too! I have a whole series of german neices i'm planning to employ on this basis over the next 10 years...they're hugely competent at household and child-related matters, but that might be them, rather than their germanness.

LOL, Rosa. I can believe if after starting to read that book 3 Kids, 2 Parents, 1 Hell of a Bumpy Ride. I was amazed. I couldn't believe how much they swore at their parents! I thought it was the new teenage generation but then a lady I met in lakeland said she wouldn't stand for it from her teenagers. Sorry, going a bit off topic. Great idea about evening babysitting GS. I don't think I've been out for a meal with DH together since DS was born!