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Create A Bucket List for Au Pair Adventures

by cv harquail March 24, 2014
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If you could create a ‘bucket’ list for any Au Pair coming to the USA, to help him or her make sure to take FULL advantage of the Au Pair adventure, what would you recommend? Writes TexasHM: This morning I had a random idea – what if I created for my AP a list like this […]

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Give Your Au Pair The Gift of Travel ~ Ideas from HRHM

by cv harquail December 13, 2012
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Most Au Pairs want the chance to travel during their year with us. “Travel” can mean a lot of things– vacations, long weekends, day trips, and even a quick stop over at something interesting on the way to a regular errand. Host mom and regular contributor HRHM shares these ideas for simple, fun, lower-cost travel […]

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Create and Share Your Au Pair Holiday Gift Ideas

by cv harquail November 26, 2012
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There’s nothing like a well-chosen holiday gift to tell a person “I see you. I understand you. I care about you.” Each year, the Winter holidays give us a chance to let our au pairs know that we appreciate them as a family member, as a valued childcare giver, and as a young adult “on […]

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Au Pair Community Resources: Calling all LCCs, Experts and Artists

by cv harquail January 30, 2011
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Several LCCs have emailed to ask if we could include their blogs in the list of LCC blogs on the sidebar. I’d like to be able to list any counselor, consultant, or expert who has something to offer to the AuPairMom community, and I’d like to upgrade this to a fuller and more organized presentation […]

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10 Most Engaging Posts of 2010 on Au Pair Mom

by cv harquail December 31, 2010
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Each of us has a topic or two that really hits our hot buttons… but have you ever wondered which topics we all seem to want to talk about? In an ‘end of the year retrospective’ moment, I went back and looked over the posts for this past year to see which ones were the […]

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Parents, do you share this site with your Au Pair?

by cv harquail July 9, 2010
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How many of you host parents share the URL of this blog with your current au pairs? Or send them copies of posts using ShareThis or email? How many of you hope to the good lord that your au pair will *never* stumble across this conversation? Inquiring minds want to know, so without further ado: […]

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Au Pair Appreciation: Help some host families strengthen their au pair relationships

by cv harquail May 5, 2009
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As International APAW continues, you might be looking for another quick, easy and helpful way to show not only that you appreciate your au pair, but also that you appreciate the challenges and the responsibility of being a great host family. So here’s another suggestion for appreciating au pairs and host families that is easy […]

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The kind of question I love to hear from Au Pairs! And your answers …?

by cv harquail March 14, 2009
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I’m so glad to have the chance to highlight some of the nicest things about having an au pair. Discussing the good things not only benefits host parents who are new to the whole thing and need some encouragement, but also helps out any experienced host parents who need to be re-juiced. Here’s a question […]

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Sample Handbook from a Reader

by cv harquail March 3, 2009
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Hi Moms- Recall that last month I invited you all to share pages from your Family Handbook … I’ve just posted the first of those sample handbooks as a page: Sample Handbook 2, from CC Family. The Sample Handbook is based on the format provided by the Cultural Care Agency, so you may have seen […]

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Share a page from your handbook …

by cv harquail February 10, 2009
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When I started au pair momming 11 years ago, there was no such thing as an Au Pair Handbook. My au pair agency never recommended that I create a family manual, and my LCC actually laughed when I told her that I’d put together a printed list of guidelines for our incoming au pair. My, […]

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