Au Pair child care is uniquely designed to create a family relationship between children, parents and Au Pair with profound life-long effects. Instead of hiring an employee, Host Families welcome a distant cousin (soon-to-be-best-friend) and open their home, community and hearts. Au Pairs are described as “sisters”, “brothers”, “best friends”, “a single team” and “member of the family”. Au Pairs describe their families as “little angels”, “beautiful little siblings”, “super hero”, “the best host family ever” and “wonderful people”.
This family relationship sets Au Pairs apart from all other kinds of child care. Not only do parents receive the benefits of a reliable care provider, flexible scheduling, and the in home child care tasks you’d expect, they also experience the love of a family member and the trust and confidence that comes with it.
When we arrived at the house, I felt I came back home after a long time, finally I had found my perfect match. My host family is incredibly special, they were three before, but now we are a family of 4 people: my host mom, my two kids and me. My kids are the sweetest in the world, they took me back to life! They gave me the reason to believe I can do something meaningful with my life…I’m growing as a human being because of them…We have a great communication and I feel free to express myself; I love this feeling of being part of a family that appreciates what I do for them in the same way I do appreciate what they do for me. I already know I am just in the place I should be. I can say I become a better version of myself everyday thanks to the challenges we deal with as a family. I love them so much and I am saving every moment we spent together in the bottom of my heart.
I think when you sign up to be a host parent, you have the expectations of exceptional child care, a helping hand, and someone to bring culture and life from a foreign country into your home. But what you really get is a lifelong family member and some of the most incredible memories your children will always have. In our case – we were given the ultimate gift of closeness, an indestructible bond, patience, love, and faith that our youngest child can and will overcome a diagnosis.
They include me in everything they are going to do, even when I’m not around, our communication is incredible! They care about me, even though they are very busy people, I appreciate everything they do for me, the patience all attention and help, at the end of the day when I am tired I have a room so comfortable that I feel happy just to enter it, I feel peaceful and safe.I think they deserve not only this award, but all the good things that life will provide for them, because they are people with an incredible heart, an open mind, respect, a lot of complicity and humility! for showing their culture in a very fun way, for the opportunity to be achieving goals, dreams, to get out of my comfort zone and face everything. I am not an au pair, I am a MEMBER of this family that lit the path of my dreams.
B [Au Pair] has become an integral part of our family; I find myself thinking of us as a family of eight now, instead of seven. We have thoroughly enjoyed including B in several of our family outings and vacations. Whenever she is not with us, it feels like someone is missing. I love B, and would claim her as my own in a heartbeat. She is one of the sweetest, most selfless persons I have ever met. We are blessed that she chose to come live with us, and I am already dreading the day she has to leave.
Then come my two extraordinary kiddos: R (Host Kid), 10 and K (Host Kid), 4. If you saw them your heart would melt I swear! They are really unique and make me feel like a big sister through them I can see myself with my siblings and that warms my heart every time… I wasn’t expecting my life would change like this because of people I didn’t know before. Since I am part of their family I have learned about myself, everything I can achieve, how strong I am and how important it’s to have people to count on. I’m blessed to have them in my life. My host family rocks!
