Chris, Simone and Thijs may 2008 in our boat	Petra and Richard France jul 2007 by Simone

Weesp, Noord-Holland - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily Dutch, living in Netherlands. Family speaks Dutch, English, French, and German. Looking for a female Au Pair. Our aupair will not need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
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City	Weesp
State/Province	Noord-Holland
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Country	Netherlands

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Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair
Prefers an Au Pair gender of	Female
Au Pair must be able to speak	Dutch English
Prefers an Au Pair in the age range	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	Australian, Canadian, New Zealander, South African
Years of education required	13-16
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
This position is	Part-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair	30 to 35 hours/week
We require the Au Pair to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair's use	No
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	DutchEnglishFrenchGerman
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	Yes
Number of children	3
Children's ages	8,6,2
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	30-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair required	November, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair required	January, 2010
Shortest period Au Pair is required	9 months
Longest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair job description

Hi, we're looking for an au pair for Chris (8 since Apr 09), Simone (6 since Aug 09) and Thijs 2 in Nov 09). They're great kids, very easy-going with a mind of their own. We enjoy intercontinental traveling and want to give a more international flavour to their upbringing outside holidays. We're looking for an au pair who'll love spending time with them, adding to their childhood and healthy development. They love to go to the playground, play with friends, ride around in our 'bakfiets' (bicycle with sufficient room for 3 kids), draw, play games and read books. We expect you to help out 3 times a week bringing Chris and Simone to and from school and activities such as piano class, occassionally field hockey and sailing. Thijs enjoys playing, a walk and his food. We both work 4 days a week in jobs that require some flexibility. Average working week is 3 days and 1 morning or evening. Cooking experience and / or interest is very welcome to help now and then in our rush hour.

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Hi, we hope you are the warm, loving, active, keen and friendly person (read the great and yet very human au pair ;-)) who would like to enjoy a year in our family. A few things about us and the Netherlands, if it arouses your enthousiasm and curiosity be sure to leave a message :-)! Our background is industrial engineering and management, Richard specialized in supply chain management, I specialized in (change) management. Richard is a gliding instructor and rows in a whaler, I'm thinking of picking up field hockey again on top of Pilates and wouldn't mind if you have running aspirations, we definitely have the scenery here! We live in the historic center of a fortified city surrounded by beautiful nature close to Amsterdam (less than 15 min. by train to Amsterdam central station). We live in an 18 century monument with garden and excellent facilities for an au pair (small living room including kitchen, private bed room and bath room incl. washing facilities completely renovated a few years ago). Within 30 meters you'll find a small square which is the vivid centre of our neighbourhood, used for lunches, dinners, drinks, playing ground including small swimming pool for the kids if weather permits. The biggest playground of the city is at the end of our street, distance less than 100 meters. Our neighbourhood offers a nice mixture of people who've lived here for ages and young families who've moved here from Amsterdam in search of more space for their kids to play. It includes several international flavours, within 100 meters US, UK, Belgium and Chile, friends of ours with currently a New Zealander au pair and a Canadian babysitter within 500 m. Our kids playfully learn English and would love to learn more. We're all more than willing to teach you (more) Dutch, anything from useful to fluent is available. The Netherlands is a relatively small crowded country, which means you'll find almost anything within walking, cycling or driving distance. To give you a bit of an idea: The Dutch scenery of black and white spotted cows, tulips and windmills still exists! Within 2 minutes of cycling you'll find pastures with cows, sheep etc., the national exhibition with millions of tulips is half an hours drive and our town alone has 3 windmills. Nature (lakes, forest etc.) within 15 minutes cycling, sea incl. beaches 30 minutes drive, the river Vecht and a canal (gracht) within 1 minute walk, our own boat that we use for easy yet healthy dinners with family, friends and neighbours is 3 minutes walking away. If you're lucky skating on natural ice in winter, the artificial type at less than 30 minutes drive. Lots of other sporting facilities nearby as well, for skiing we go further south i.e. to the Alps, being such a flat country you'll only find artificial substitutes in our country ;-). Our neighbourhood is quite historic, with loads of centuries old architecture giving it a very nice atmosphere, you'll find attractive modern architecture and design as well in several cities nearby. Our town has a theatre, Amsterdam loads of it, including the Concertgebouw and Ajax soccer stadium for pop concerts. Loads of museums as well in the Amsterdam area, as far as painting is concerned a.o. Rembrandt, van Gogh and Cobra, Weesp has 2 museums both within 200 m. The train station is less than 10 minutes walking away and offers connections in 4 directions each 4 times an hour. Amsterdam central station is only 12 minutes by train. We´ve seen and enjoyed quite a lot of the world, have friends in different countries. Hope we can assist you to enjoy the same.