Au Pair/Mamaroneck, NY

Dear Au Pair Candidate We have three children, ranging in age from almost three to eight years old.Our older child, Erin will turn nine during the summer.She is a super helper with her younger brothers and is interested in art, dance, and animals.Seth is six years old and enjoys sports, reading, and playing.Devin will be three years old in October and tries to keep up with his big brother and sister.He likes to play with toy trains, to help with cooking, and to play outdoors.We live about 30 minutes outside of New York City in a suburb called Mamaroneck, NY.My husband works for a bank in NYC and works relatively long hours with some travel.He is British so we consider the au pair program a great way to help our children understand other cultures and to learn about other languages, foods, and customs.My children have enjoyed learning about Germany, Canada, and South Africa and even learned a few words of German.Our previous au pairs enjoyed the easy access to NYC, as well as the east coast of the U.S., including Boston and Philadelphia.The museums, shopping, travel and Broadway seem to fill the weekends.We consider the au pair to be part of the family and include her in travel and other activities.Last year we were in Florida, Texas, Boston, and Colorado with the children and the au pair.All three children will attend school during the school year and summer day camp at our nearby beach club.In addition to school, the children have ballet, swimming, gymnastics, music, soccer, ice-skating and softball.The au pair's responsibilities include helping out with the driving to and from to classes and school, supervising play dates, organizing arts and crafts and game playing, reading to the children, helping with homework with the older children, helping with dinner, the children's laundry, packing lunches for school, baking cookies, and other simple errands for the kids.We have a big playroom, a swimming pool, a big swing set, and lots of books, games, puzzles, and toys for the kids.The au pair has it's own bedroom with attached bath.The most important qualities for us in an au pair are kindness, patience, and tidiness.We are looking for someone to nurture and play with the children.I am a stay-at-home Mom so I am generally around and really just need an extra pair of hands so that each child gets a lot of love and attention.Tillträde: Hösten -08 Fri resa och sjukförsäkring ingår (värde 5800:-) om du har en komplett ansökan före den 31 juli 2008.Gäller vid avresa till USA under 2008.Eget boende, betald semester.Studiemedel 500-1000 dollar.Hemreseskydd vid allvarlig familjesituation.4 dagars kurs i NY innan ankomst till familjen.Regelbundna Au Pairmöten i USA.Vi gör regelbundna intervjuer på orter runt om i Sverige.