Au Pair cost was much cheaper than the cost of nanny (east coast) and there are specific agencies that can hook you up. Au pairs are like foreign students and they are here to learn so there requirements of certain hours of school enrollments and they typically don't work on weekends and have vacation days. Stipend you pay the aupair is set by the state department so you can look it up. The agency you work with will do pre screening and then provide you with a list of candidates (you pick which region, i.e. mexico vs east europe) for you to interview and you pick one. There are a limited options to switch if you don't get along with the au pair once he/she joined you. Btw, I think you also need to cover the cost of the departure plane ticket. 10 years ago I believe cost of Au pair (live in) was about $200 a week compared with $600+ a week for a live out nanny. 2 weeks vacation for au pair and 5 weeks vacation for the nanny. I think an aupair can stay for a year and then extend maybe for another 6 month or so. Thus if your kids are young, expect to go through many au pairs. The duties of the au pair I think it is strict so in our case, it is just taking care of the kids (exclude the weekends), i.e. driving thd kids to activities, no house cleaning etc etc. Our aupair did cook lunch for herself and the kids and did dinner for herself and we did dinner for us and the kids. We also provided a car for the aupair for weekend transportation. Use aupair can save money if it works out. My kids still remember all the aupairs and kept in touch with some of them. P.S. think twice about getting young blue blond from east europe so the man of the house don't get tempted :-) Heard some gossip stories.
想找靠谱的不容易。特别靠谱的，感觉都是去有好几个孩子的家庭，责任大，工作量大，但是赚的也多点。
我没问过sitter做家务。一来是不好意思，二来我家孩子不好带，高需求高能量，根本没可能一边带孩子一边做家务。但我看网上很多sitter说自己可以帮忙打扫房间啥的。估计就是吸个地毯吧？做饭太难了，除非是冷冻食品放烤箱里那种。
10 years ago I believe cost of Au pair (live in) was about $200 a week compared with $600+ a week for a live out nanny. 2 weeks vacation for au pair and 5 weeks vacation for the nanny. I think an aupair can stay for a year and then extend maybe for another 6 month or so. Thus if your kids are young, expect to go through many au pairs. The duties of the au pair I think it is strict so in our case, it is just taking care of the kids (exclude the weekends), i.e. driving thd kids to activities, no house cleaning etc etc. Our aupair did cook lunch for herself and the kids and did dinner for herself and we did dinner for us and the kids. We also provided a car for the aupair for weekend transportation. Use aupair can save money if it works out. My kids still remember all the aupairs and kept in touch with some of them.
P.S. think twice about getting young blue blond from east europe so the man of the house don't get tempted :-) Heard some gossip stories.
找nanny sitter 最好的管道是到社區大學登廣告 他們能開車 有活力 也便宜 但是做不了家務 要能做飯是最難找的 找不到 就到中餐館包餐 或是問問老闆娘給介紹一下
我同事有请过他孩子dc的老师把小朋友送回家，然后再陪玩，她回家做好饭就让老师回家了，但是不会做家务，只是看孩子