tricky situation with a 16 yo

I am working as an au pair in France. I look after just one little child but the child has other siblings. One of the siblings is a 16 year old boy who has taken a fancy to me. I get on well with all of the members of the family so it's only natural for me to bond with everyone. However I find his interest in me very weird and awkward. I am in my mid twenties and I work for these people.

What do I do? How do I deal with this kind of attention? If I suddenly start being cold and distant it is going to ruin the family atmosphere and make things even more weird. But I can't deal with it, it's just eecky for me. What do I do? I feel grossed out even mentioning this to the parents, it will be so awkward!

I kinda know how you feel where I work we get teenagers who I have to teach and some of them get crushes and it is kinda awkward and weird. Think first thing is try and be professional and if becomes more of a problem, is there like anyone who you could speak to about it like the person who assigned you to the au pair?

I can't because it was through a website not an agency. I guess the only point of contact would be parents but I can just imagine how horribly awkward it would be. I get what you mean by being professional. However my duties include paying with the children which for a teenager might be a bit intense if he has a crush on me. For example a few days ago we went sledging. Everyone was taking turns to sledge together. So I sledged with him a few times as well. For me he is a kid but for him to sledge with me might be more than just that. So now I feel massively awkward to participate in these kind of activities when he is around.

Ah ok yeah I see now, hmmmm only thing is it might be the only way to stop him being all over you like that, unless maybe you could just have a quiet word with him first.

I think I might but in a very joky way. I might resort to a good old 'I like a guy, the guy I like is 25+, I like him cause he is mature'. this is a very immature thing to do but maybe it will put thing into perspective for him.

I am working as an au pair in France. I look after just one little child but the child has other siblings. One of the siblings is a 16 year old boy who has taken a fancy to me. I get on well with all of the members of the family so it's only natural for me to bond with everyone. However I find his interest in me very weird and awkward. I am in my mid twenties and I work for these people.

What do I do? How do I deal with this kind of attention? If I suddenly start being cold and distant it is going to ruin the family atmosphere and make things even more weird. But I can't deal with it, it's just eecky for me. What do I do? I feel grossed out even mentioning this to the parents, it will be so awkward!

Just as an aside: do you consider yourself more a "member of the family" or more a paid employee? The whole idea of being an au-pair just seems like a massive minefield of really awkward grey areas (like this one) to me.