Au Pair in America Families

The Dowd Family

When at home with the kids, you will mostly find yourself supervising homework for one to two hours in the afternoon, arranging play dates with other au pairs in the area or helping them with activities in and around the house.  You will pick them up from school with the car, or the boys may decide to cycle to school, which means that you will cycle with them and collect them with your bike in the afternoon.  They take the bus during the winter months.  When they get home, you will more than likely prepare a healthy snack, help unpack their backpacks, read the notes and homework that is brought home and make sure they do their work, with your help, if needed.  After homework is done there are many other activities like soccer, baseball, swimming etc that they take part in.  You would drive them back and forth to their activities.

You will have a private bedroom with a queen size bed.  The room has a flat-screen TV with cable and an on-suite bathroom.  We don’t expect anyone to share a bathroom with three boys! 

Chicago is a great city to live in with many places to see and visit.  There are also a large group of au pairs in our area. Our former au pairs have found this to be a great support network and great friendships are made through the regular get togethers that are arranged for them.