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Freeland, WA - Host Family at a Glance
40-something family, primarily American, living in United States. Family speaks Dutch, English, French, and Spanish. Looking for a female Au Pair. Our aupair will need to have a driver's license. Light housekeeping is required, and we will not accept an aupair that smokes.
Customer Since 03/04/2005	Last Activity 05/10/2008	Profile added to 40 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 15 Due
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City	Freeland
State/Province	WA
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Country	United States

Family Preferences and Availability
Seeking to hire	Au Pair
Prefers an Au Pair gender of	Female
Au Pair must be able to speak	English
Prefers an Au Pair in the age range	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	American, Australian, Austrian, Belgian, British, Bulgarian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Maltese, Mexican, New Zealander, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish
Years of education required	13-16
Years of childcare experience required	1
This position is	Full-time
Required hours of work by Au Pair	35 to 40 hours/week
We require the Au Pair to live in/out	Live In
A car is available for Au Pair's use	Yes
We expect to pay a weekly salary in the range	Negotiable
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	DutchEnglishFrenchSpanish
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	Yes
Number of children	3
Children's ages	1, 5, 6
We have children with special needs	No
Elderly care is required	No
Disabled persons care is required	No
We have pets	Yes
Our family falls in the age group	40-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair required	July, 2008
Latest starting date Au Pair required	August, 2008
Shortest period Au Pair is required	12 months
Longest period Au Pair is required	24 months
Family references available upon request	Yes

Au Pair job description

Thanks for your interest and please check out our detailed interview and pictures! We are looking for someone to join our family and enjoy life. Typical tasks will be helping get the meals together, get the kids to school and back, and general activities such as art, games and play dates. We believe in working to a schedule to help you plan your free time. In most cases your weekends will be free, although we will generally ask you to travel with us when on vacation. While we do have three children you would generally not be responsible for three at the same time. We have had a great experience with 4 aupairs over the last four years (through this website) and are happy to provide references. We work hard to get great people and it pays off for both sides...

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Hello and thank you for your interest. We are looking for someone who genuinely loves children and will be a part of our family. We hope you will have motivation and initiative and will enjoy playing with our children and exploring the world (nature, animals, art, libraries etc.) It is important that you are thoughtful, considerate and responsible. Trusting you with our children’s safety is the most one could ever ask of us and therefore we expect you to take this commitment very seriously. In addition, you will run errands, including shopping, and help around the house as needed. Malou and Lucas will be going to school 5 days a week. Isaac will be at home and will have an additional care giver who lives outside the house. We work from our home next door) as this allows us to be more engaged with our kids. Primary cleaning will be done by someone else. As our aupair we will provide you with a cell phone, unlimited internet access, TV as well as the more standard benefits (insurance, a course, be it English, horseback riding or otherwise). Note, if you watch a lot of TV, we are probably not the right family. We are looking for someone who lives life. You must fill out the detailed interview to be considered. We are in the process of moving from the Netherlands to Freeland,WA, to be closer to family. Freeland is located on beautiful Whidbey Island, some 35 miles from Seattle. This is approximately 60-90 minutes due to the ferry ride. We have just purchased a cool, old farm house in a beautiful setting, close to the beach and town. This is a great area if you are into outdoor sports such as skiing/boarding, biking, camping, hiking, horse back riding, etc. Seattle provides "top 10" city entertainment and shopping on the weekends if you want it. For the athletic types, we live near the water and have sea-kayaks for your use. A bike and a car will also be provided. Check out the wikipedia for more info on the area, then look up whidbey island or seattle. Mom and Dad are left leaning yuppies, into the New York Times and sustainable development among other things. We love cooking and eating, especially outdoors and put a fair amount of energy into it. Limited meat eating happens in our house, although we are not extremists by any definition. Concerning our process, we will be screening applicants and reading detailed interview questions through April, then moving into interviews in May, looking to make a decision and offer by May 15 for a summer start date... ideally such that you have some overlap with our current aupair. In sum, we have a preference for motivated, active personalities who genuinely love children and take initiative and learn in all they do. We look forward to hearing from you!