Benefits Of Au Pair Over Daycare

No matter how big shot business man or an average employee in a small company you are, you will want the best for your kids. Work has kept you busy and will keep doing that for lifetime. You need to derive ways to give your children the love and care they deserve at a tender age. And to lessen the burden au pair agencies work for you.

Many people keep questioning themselves and others whether daycare is the right option, especially when an au pair would provide your children so much better and more. They may look like similar options but if you observe and look closely and deeply, you will very clearly see that an au pair provides many advantages that a daycare does not.

Hiring an Au Pair in your house presents the chance to include her/him with all your kids around the plan that you’d like, the opportunity to look at the backdrop regarding the person who will be with all your kid, someone to cook to your youngsters, help with the homework and even more.

Many daycares do not offer a flexible drop and pick up time. Their hours are certain and you cannot do anything about it where as an au pair spends time with your kids at home so there is no issue of timings.

Since the au pair lives at your residence, there is always the chance for him or her to assist you a little around the house. The number one job of the au pair is actually to take care of your kids, thus these kind of jobs need to be a thing that require your child. In the event the Skilled Au Pair tends to make your child dinner or even lunch time, they could assist with clean up after meals, do beddings etc.

Au pairs go through a tough series of screening tests and interviews before they set their foot in your family for you and your kid.
The most important thing is your child grows up at his/her own home with his/her own toys. The au pair is practically all the time with the kid when you are not around. Nothing sounds safer for your kid than that.

Necessity of Au Pair in Australia

Sometimes the professional life needs so much of attention that your personal life starts lacking behind. You are not able to give the love and care you child needs. You start blaming yourself for being a horrible person but that is not true.  In such cases you should get an au pair.
There are several agencies in Australia who can get you an au pair suitable to your family and your requirements.

First let us explain what an au pair is?
The French term “Au Pair” means “on par” or equal. Au Pairs move to Australia to experience Australian life while living with an Australian host family and caring for their children.
An Au Pair is usually a young woman (or man) from a foreign country considering for a new intercultural change. They approve to contribute to the host family with domestic care of their children and light house chores and in return they get the chance to enhance their own English abilities on a regular basis while experiencing life in a safe homely environment as they become a part of an Australian family.
Au pair’s errands generally comprise of:
- Awakening and dressing the children, showering and playing with the children.
- Cooking meals for the children, watching after their stuffs, making beddings for children. Washing their clothes and maintaining their rooms and cleaning up the kitchen after the children eat.
- Driving children to and from school, appointments or outings
Provisions that an au pair receives:
- a private room
- all the meals in a day
- salary for their expense (there are rules for that)
- get to go on outings with the host family
- 1-2 days off in a week for personal needs
Au Pairs make a considerable fiscal and private promise to be a part of the program. They are dedicated and very passionate about their role caring for the kids of their Australian Host Family.
What is the necessity of hiring an Au Pair?
- Cultural Enhancement
Au pairs in Australia offer a culturally inspiring experience. An Au Pair contributes your family with priceless cultural understanding and a great learning experience. Many Au Pairs form close life-long relationships and friendships with their host family.
- Reasonable Supervision for child
Au pair is an economical solution. Getting an au pair is comparatively cheap rather than sending your child to the childcare.
- Ease
With an Au Pair you can overlook the pressure of pickups and enjoy the ease of domestic care.  An Au Pair provides you and your kids a calm, relaxed alternative to the morning and early evening rush.
- Thorough Selection
Every Au Pair finishes a difficult selection process. The multileveled screening consists of reference checks, personal interview and thorough follow up report, working with Kids Check, health check and First Aid certificate.

By hiring an au pair you add a new member to your family.  An au pair is not there for your children only but also there for you. They ease your work. They can be great friends too. You change from a shouting mummy to a relaxed mummy.

Another member- our Au Pair

Being a working mom and wife is tough at times. Though my family had my full attention on my week-offs but on working days, managing office and family sometimes got too hectic that I felt like running away just for a moment.

My friend suggested me to get an au pair for kids. I didn’t like the idea of living with a stranger under the same roof. My friend, Annet had one at her home. She told me to spend some time with her so that I could change my perception. Luckily it worked for me and still I thank Annet to introduce me to this amazingly helpful concept of getting childcare.

I contacted Select Au Pairs to help me throughout the process. God really wanted to see me and my family happy. I got an au pair, Zoe. I had few requirements and she totally fitted the bill.

She was from a well off family from London. A sweet bubbly girl who knew what her responsibilities were. From the first day at my home, my daughters Zara and Holly fell in love with her. She took care of them when I was home and when I wasn’t. She used to take them to school, playgrounds and other kids’ activities. She also helped me in house chores. She had her studies to do but she managed everything so well.

She was like a member to my family. She wasn’t too young or too old, she was just 21. At times when I used to be tired from work, she used to talk to me and her words used to be calming and supportive at the same time. She had a good rapport with my husband too.

We all were a cute family. I never thought I would accept her the way I accepted her. Sometimes I, my husband and Zoe used to talk about issues related to her college and our office. We used to have grown-up talks which would just go on and on. She was like an elder sister to my kids; a friend to my husband; and both friend and sister to me.

She loved us and we loved her. We extended our contract with her and she stayed with us for two more years. We all grew together as a family. It has been 2 years since she moved out and we are still in contact.

I thank Select Au Pairs to introduce me to Zoe, another member of my family.

Best Host Mom an Au Pair could get!

I moved to Sydney from California just after one week after completing my high school. I was happy as well as confused at the same time. I was happy as I was about to step into a new family but I was confused about how they would treat me, whether they would think of me as an experience Au Pair or a new member to their family.

My mom always said I was a lucky child. Luck always accompanied me in all major and important situations of my life. Luck moved with me to Sydney too.

My Host family had three members and one yet to step into the beautiful world. The host mom, Mia was three months pregnant when I moved with them; her husband, Harvey worked in some law firm and they had a naughty but handsome two year old boy, Steve.

I was given my own room and it had all the stuff that I needed. The day I reached, Mia arranged a small dinner with two families and their professional Au Pairs from neighborhood. It was an evening well spent. I came to know a lot about my host family that night. They were a little family who knew how to enjoy with others.  Those Au Pairs gave me some basic tips for this new start of my life.

Mia loved to read. She gave me some pretty good books to read in free time. She was a lady with elegance, smartness, intelligence, street smartness and an amazing sense of humor. Steve loved me. We would play and study together every day.  As Mia was pregnant, she used to stay at home. She always made me feel like a family member. Every day we all would have dinner and then watch TV together. I used to talk to Mia and Harvey like a daughter and they would advise me like my parents. They welcomed me with their arms wide open.

On my birthday, she cooked my favorite dish and made my favorite chocolate fudge cake. We went out in for a movie and dinner in one of the restaurants that served best pizza. They didn’t give me a single moment to miss family and friends.

The time came when the new baby girl, Kate stepped into the world. She was as pretty as Mia. With Kate, came new responsibilities but Mia always made sure that I was getting time for my activities. We celebrated many occasions together and clicked innumerous pictures. Steve and Kate were lucky to have such an amazing mom.

The year went away in a flick. I had to shift to another family. It was heartbreaking to leave them but it was something I knew from the start. I was blessed to have such an amazing host family and host mom.

How much I miss my Au Pair?

I am a grown up teenage girl now. I don’t have any siblings and both my parents are busy, quite busy in their personal lives. When I was a baby, my grannies used to live at our place so they could take care of me but they could not stay forever at our place. So, I was sent to daycare. I liked being with other kids and playing with so many toys.

When I was 5 years old, my parents decided to get an Au Pair for me. I was told that they would call a lovely girl in our family for some time to take care of the things around.  As a single kid, I didn’t like the idea initially because I thought my parents’ love and attention would get divided between me and her but I was wrong. I was so wrong.

She was from Australia and her name was summer. Mommy and Daddy were nice to her and she was nice to all of us. She was given her own room, next to mine. She used to play with me when my parents were out for work, used to help me in my home-work, used to take me to gardens and play-grounds. I liked her in fact I loved her. Summer saw me growing from a child to a girl. She was just like a family member and we all loved each other.

She used to help my parents in house chores too. She had joined some classes on weekends so then I got to see her less as she used to study too but she was always there whenever I needed her. She was like a mother, a father, a friend and a sister. Though she stayed with us just for a year but I would never forget her. She taught me many things apart from playing with me.

She visited us twice after she left our place. She was an amazing girl. I wish all the happiness in world for her and wish every kid gets an Au Pair like her.