Elsa and Cinderella	The family

Swampscott, MA - Host Family at a Glance
30-something family, primarily American, living in United States. Family speaks English, and Swedish. 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 06/09/2006	Last Activity 01/08/2009	Profile added to 25 Hot Lists in last 30 days	Auto-Responses 6 Due
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City	Swampscott
State/Province	MA
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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 Swedish
Prefers an Au Pair in the age range	18-26
Prefers an Au Pair of the nationality	Swedish
Years of education required	No preference
Years of childcare experience required	No Preference
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	$101 - $200
Light housework required of Au Pair	Yes
Languages spoken by our family	English Swedish
Our religion/spiritual practice is	No Religion
We require care for children under age 2	No
Number of children	1
Children's ages	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	30-something
Single parent family	No
Au Pair couples accepted	No
Earliest starting date Au Pair required	January, 2009
Latest starting date Au Pair required	April, 2009
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

- Take care of a 6 year old girl - drop off and pick up from school (driving required) - help with homework, cleaning child's room and prepping her meals - Play, must be creative and love to play (our daughter is into princesses)

Family's Message to Au Pairs

Our family consists of myself, Madlene Olander, my husband Jag and our five year old daughter Elsa. We also have two well behaved cats, Chaos and Panic and a puppy name Ludde. I’m a Director in Project Management at a company in Norwood. Jag works for the We enjoy spending time as a family and make it a priority to do activities on the weekend, i.e., going to the zoo, apple picking etc. My biggest interest is children’s art and I spend the little time I have to myself on my company . Jag loves fishing and home improvements. Elsa is a happy little girl with a big personality. Since I’m from Sweden she speaks both English and Swedish. Elsa loves arts, playing princess, singing and dancing. Elsa wakes up a 7AM and goes to bed at 8PM. Since Elsa goes to preschool three days a week and usually goes on play dates with the other au-pairs and kids from our area (about 30-40 other aupairs in our area). We are extremely open to other cultures. I’m Swedish, and my husband is West Indian American. We travel to Sweden twice a year. Since Jag is the Director of Multi Culture Affairs we all come in contact with many different cultures on a regular basis with culture events at the College that Jag’s department sponsors. We live in a ranch style house with a large backyard. Elsa has a swing and lots of room to play. The basement is finished and houses a guestroom, bathroom, family room and he au-pair’s room will be downstairs, so that she can have her privacy. She will also have her own bathroom and shower. The room has a bed, nightstand, closet, dresser, lots of storage and a TV. It’s a cute room with all new furniture. The au-pair will also have access to a car. We are expecting the au-pair to respect our home and treat it as they would their own. We are also expecting the au-pair to help out with light cleaning (loading dishwasher, vacuuming etc) while Elsa is in daycare and of course also clean up after herself. We live in Swampscott, which is located on the NorthShore outside Boston (20 min with train). The beach is located 5 min from our house. It’s a cute little town with lots of shopping (within walking distance from our home) and there is also a lot of gyms and places to go walking. Historic Salem is located about 10 minuets from Swampscott and Marblehead is about 5 minuets away.