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Your Au Pair’s Room: Advice

by cv harquail June 3, 2008

Picture yourself in this room. Imagine that you’ve just spent 8 hours with energetic kids, talking in your second language, driving on unfamiliar streets on the wrong side of the road. Wouldn’t it be lovely if you could walk upstairs, open the door, and step into a room like this? It doesn’t have to be […]

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Our Home: Guidelines

by cv harquail May 15, 2008

Principle: Our home is for you to enjoy as a member of the family, and we expect that you will treat it with respect and consideration. You should clean up after yourself (put your dishes and clothes away) and do your own laundry, but we do not expect you to clean the whole house or […]

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AuPair Guidelines

by cv harquail May 14, 2008

Here is a sample of what you might use as “Au Pair Guidelines” Feel free to cut & paste, add, revise, whatever, to make these guidelines fit with your family practices and priorities. If you come up with some good guidelines, please add them to the Comments section! (Note: It is easy to personalize these […]

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