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Your au pair has responsibilities and you, as a host family have some too.<\/p>\n
In general (this varies from country to country) you should …<\/p>\n
– have at least one child under the age of 18.
\n– be a family of at least one parent.
\n– be able to provide your au pair with her\/his own separate bedroom and three meals a day.<\/p>\n
Your au pair should be treated as a member of your \u00a0family and not as an employee or servant.<\/p>\n
Your main responsibilities as a host family will be:<\/p>\n
– provide a separate bedroom for your au pair. Don’t forget that au pairs are young people and they can make mistakes. Compliment them when they make do a good job – that can mean a lot for them.\u00a0 Remember, if you treat your au pair well she\u2019ll hopefully stay with you for a long time but if you don\u2019t treat her as she expects she\u2019s free to leave at any time.<\/p>\n What do you think about your responsibilities as a host family?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your au pair has responsibilities and you, as a host family have some too. In general (this varies from country to country) you should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[22,21,24,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findaupair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– provide three meals a day.
\n– pay the specified amount of \u201cpocket money\u201d required by the host country’s regulations.
\n– include your au pair in most family activities at no cost to herself.
\n– make sure your au pair has appropriate health insurance and if required, accident and liability insurance.
\n– give your au pair adequate time off (at least two \u00a0days per week) and allow her free time to attend language classes.
\n– if required in your country, ensure that your au pair is legally registered.
\n– don’t ask your au pair to work more than 25 hours per week or more than 10 hours per day.\u00a0 If you want your au pair to work extra hours, and she agrees, you should pay her extra money.
\n– discuss with your au pair (before she arrives) all house rules, her schedule<\/a>, duties and responsibilities<\/a>.
\n– make sure your au pair knows about any dietary or health requirements your children might have.
\n– make sure your au\u00a0pair knows where you keep first aid supplies.
\n– explain to your au pair what she should do in case of an emergency or accident and make sure she knows how to call Emergency Services.<\/p>\n