Work abroad in Clark's family for 3-24 Months starting from Dec 2024 as an Au Pair and Nanny to take care of 1 children of 6 - 10 years old in Dublin, Dublin Ireland

So my goal is to find someone to be my daughter's big sister, so she can have fun and enjoying different activities when I am busy and can't be with her; I also want someone to help me, allow me spend more quality time with my daughter and spend more time on my business. And allow me to go out in the evening knowing my daughter is sleeping safe and sound with someone in the house. For the au pair, there are plenty free time during the day and most evenings. We also provide plenty chances to experience in Ireland and Europe. We goes to lots of activities, nice restaurants, festivals and holidays.
Examples of the activities we do: rocking climbing, swimming, ice skating, hiking, zoo, playground, cinema, shopping, different sports.

Wednesday and Sunday are off, there is one paid holiday each month

We had few au pairs in the past, I prefer someone with au pair experience, but not mandatory. Someone willing and happy to communicate and adopt, someone open minded. Enjoying spending time with kid, enjoying taking part of different activities; holding a clean driving license; and not a vegetarian or vegan.

I will describe how things work out at the moment so you have an idea, but i am not expecting every au pair to do exactly same thing. Happy to discuss and adjust

In the morning, I get up 7:30 and wake up my daughter, get her dressed and wash up. Meanwhile, our au pair prepare breakfast and lunch box for my daughter. We have breakfast together, around 8:30, au pair drop her to school. It's a 5 mins drive.

After school drop off, our au pair goes to grocery shopping for the house hold if needed. Then she does the house chores, including tidy up rooms including kitchen and bathroom, this take about an hour most of time, especially if it's done every day. The rest of the day is free. Laundry is once a week. The house chores are not limited to my daughter's room, it's for the whole house, but it's not a big house and only 2 of us living in the house plus au pair. So it's easy enough. I am very grateful that our au pair is doing the house chores so I dont need to do it. Being a single parent, this save me lots of time for work, business and spend time with my daughter. I have also been told the house chores are no more than an au pair have to do in a 2 parents family.

School pick up is around 17:00. 5 mins drive again. I cook most of the weekdays, because I want my daughter to have Chinese food regularly. I do homework with my daughter after she comes home, it's about 15 mins. Then I get her to practice some basketball or some extra learning like chinese etc. Then it's her play time with au pair. I go back to finishing cooking dinner. If our au pair is cooking, then I will be playing with my daughter till dinner is ready.

Dinner finishes around 19:30. I bring my daughter upstairs to wash up and get ready for bed. While our au pair tidy up dinner table and putting dishes into dish washer. She goes to sleep around 20:00 and the rest of the evening is free.
On every Tuesday, I go to rock climbing around 19:30, we either move everything a bit earlier or the au pair will do wash up and bed time with my daughter.

On rare occasions, I have to go out for dinner, I will get dinner ready before I leave and au pair will do bed time with my daughter.

On every Friday, basketball training in the afternoon, it's about 40 mins drive due to heavy traffic, our au pair pick her up from afterschool around 13:30 and drive her to the gym, then bring her home.

We don't cook at home over weekend, it's either restaurants or delivery. I plan at least one activity a day and spend Saturday with my daughter when I can. Sometime I have plans on Saturday, our au pair will bring my daughter to planned activity. Au pair is off on Sunday, she joins our activity if it's interesting to her.

Holidays use to be tricky for us, minding a small child and travel long distance isn't really best holiday option. But with our au pairs help, it has become much more enjoyable. We went to London, Belfast, Galway, Cork and Longford in 2023. Au pair are more than welcome to join our holiday but not mandatory.

My daughter is in school from 8:40 till 17:30 during school week, I want be able to spend quality time with her when she is home, I do not want the au pair to take my daughter away from me. If someone with childcare experience and knowledge can help on her activities or introduce new hobbies, it would be a great bonus for us, but not mandatory. My daughter is very active and have interests in lots of sports and arts.