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Through its AYUSA and Au Pair Care programs, Intrax provides students, young adults and families, with exchange opportunities which inspire mutual
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Searching through the racks of Mother’s Day cards looking for something just right for my step-mom and mother-in-law, I noticed just how many Mother’s Day cards there are these days for people who aren’t mothers: “You’re like a Mother to Me” [...]
Posted by Steve H • 4 days ago • View comments
Au Pair Somebody posed this question on a different post, and I’m repositioning it here, along with the responses from the APM community. Please join the conversation! Well this is my situation and I am so pissed off because it took me by surprise! My h [...]
Posted by Steve H • 5 days ago • View comments
Blogging gurus advise that, if you’ve been absent from your blog and not posting for a while, that you shouldn’t worry about it OR apologize for being MIA. But for me, it feels like the longer I go without a post, or without an explanation or a [...]
Posted by Steve H • 11 days ago • View comments
“I Vant to Be Alone” ~ Greta Garbo As the famous film actress explained, sometimes a wo/man needs a break. A grown-up’s “time out”. A moment of quiet, in her own kitchen, with a cup of tea and no one asking her to explain yet again how the micro [...]
Posted by Steve H • 25 days ago • View comments
Ah, young love. One joy of having an au pair in your home is that you get to relive (however vicariously) the drama, adventure and sometimes romance that your au pair entangles herself in. You hear about the handsome guy/beautiful girl your au pair met, y [...]
Posted by Steve H • 41 days ago • View comments
In the seasons of the Au Pair year, there often comes a time after The Honeymoon and All Systems Go, but before On the Way Out, when some au pairs hit The Minimum Viable Performance. (Sometimes, though not always, this is paired with The Slough of Not Giv [...]
Posted by Steve H • 45 days ago • View comments
Dear Prospective Au Pairs — always always always check out an offer you receive that does not come through an approved, well-known au pair agency. There are too many scammers out there who seem to be offering great positions, but who in fact just want t [...]
Posted by Steve H • 50 days ago • View comments
Is there an age past which an Au Pair candidate is just “too old” for you to consider? We got a note from OlderAP asking: Would Host Families consider accepting an older au pair? I am 26 years old. I graduated from university with MSc, extremely good [...]
Posted by Steve H • 52 days ago • View comments
Probably the biggest downside to the extension option is the possibility for a mismatch between the family’s interest in extending and the au pair’s interest in extending. When both sides don’t clearly share the same expectation, someone is bound to [...]
Posted by Steve H • 63 days ago • View comments
Dear AuPairMom- We are on a 4 month sabbatical in Cape Town, SA and we have a great local nanny here. We’d like to bring her back with us to our home in Brooklyn, NY in April. Can this be done? Can we avoid the agencies/sponsors? Dear CapeTownHostMom- Y [...]
Posted by Steve H • 70 days ago • View comments