New Year 2007

W Somerville, MA - Host Family at a Glance
50-something family, primarily American, living in United States. Family speaks English. Looking for a female Au Pair or Nanny. Our aupair will not need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 08/15/2007	Last Activity 10/02/2008	Profile added to 13 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 12 Due
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Contact Information for this Host Family
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City	W Somerville
State/Province	MA
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Country	United States

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair or Nanny
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny gender of	Female
Au Pair or nanny must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny in the age range	23-27
Prefers an Au Pair or nanny of the nationality	No preference
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Full-time or part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair or nanny	35 to 40 hours/week
We require the Au Pair or nanny to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair or nanny's use	No
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Negotiable
Light housework required of Au Pair or nanny	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English
Our religion/spiritual practice is	Unitarian Universalist
We require care for children under age 2	Yes
Number of children	2
Children's ages	5,5
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	No
Our family falls in the age group	50-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	April, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair or nanny required	August, 2010
Shortest period Au Pair or nanny is required	12 months
Longest period Au Pair or nanny is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair/Nanny job description

We are looking for a woman to become part of our family and help us raise our children.

Family's Message to Au Pairs and Nannies

We are a devoted, conscientious Boston-area couple with happy, healthy 5-year-old twin boys. We are looking for a woman between 22 and 28 years old to share our home and life and help raise our children. We seek a woman with exceptional academic ability and similar values who loves children. Melora (mommy) is a bright, shy, thoughtful, book lover. She studied Chinese history and has worked as a paralegal, though she much prefers being a mommy. :) She has also done some local, low-key LGBT activism. David (daddy) is a Ph.D. computer scientist and ex-musician. Though his job keeps him quite busy, he loves doing simple family things together when he can, such as baking banana bread or building things with the children. Our children love arts, crafts,reading, building, climbing, playing with toy trains, and helping Mommy or Daddy with whatever we are doing. They also like making up their own songs and stories. They just started swimming lessons and love them. They have not yet started music lessons, but will soon. PEACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE are very important to us. We have produced and distributed over 10,000 "MAKE JOBS, NOT WAR" bumper stickers, which we make available through our web site. We strongly support human rights and environmental organizations, and clean air (smoke-free) workplaces. We do not watch TV, but we do enjoy family song time almost every evening, and we read to our children every day, though they are also starting to read by themselves. We are health conscious and partially vegetarian (we do eat chicken and fish sometimes), but we are not rigid. We do not smoke or drink, but we do indulge in dark chocolate sometimes. :) We seek a woman who is open minded, has exceptional academic ability and who shares our values. At present we are most interested in finding someone from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Mexico, Central America or South America. NOTE: We are NOT currently paid members( though we have been before and we plan to be again), so at the moment we cannot email you unless you email us first. Thanks! P.S. We will want to get to know you by email and probably come to meet you in person before making any decision, since this is a big commitment and we want to ensure that it will be a great experience for all. Thanks!