Au Pair Responsibilities
An Au Pair is effectively another set of hands in the home and in time they can become just like another family member. The primary duty of an Au Pair is to care for your child or children. Au Pairs enrolled in our Au Pair 123 programme must fully participate in the implementation of our educational curriculum. This includes using our Child Portfolio to track and record the development and yearly accomplishments of each child as well attending playgroups and monthly activities.
Other Au Pair responsibilities can include:
- Waking your children in the morning and helping them to get dressed
- Preparing meals for your children
- Helping your children take care of their belongings and tidy their room
- Cleaning general communal areas such as the kitchen, living room, hall way, play room, children’s room and bathroom
- Taking your children to school and other activities such as sport
- Playing, reading and encouraging your children with their homework as well as maintaining family rules (such as limited TV watching, bedtimes etc)
- Babysitting in the evenings
- Helping with the household grocery shopping
- Washing and organising your child’s clothes and bedding.
Your Au Pair is not responsible for housework that does not relate to the children or communal living areas (that are kept tidy by all family members). Any cleaning or duties that distract your Au Pair from their primary function of child care are not within the rules of our programmes. It is also important to note that your Au Pair is not a professionally trained child care worker and should not be expected to run an entire household. As always, parents are ultimately responsible for the health and wellbeing of their children.