Work abroad in Cynthia's family for 11-12 Months starting from Dec 2023 as an Au Pair to take care of 2 children of 1 - 5 years old in Neckarbischofsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg Germany

Starting date: 26th of December 2023.
We are looking for someone who has ideally teaching experience and/or has pedagogy studies linked to children education.

Our 4 years old son is in Kindergarten where he stays all day (7:30 until 16:00). Our younger son goes to „Kita“ (daycare) from 7:30 until 12:30.
Both are within walking distance, only 800 meters from our house. It is only a 10 minutes walk. Your day starts by preparing our sons a lunchbox and bring them to daycare (aupair works from 7:00 until 8:00) and spend time with them afterwards in the afternoon (15:00 until 20:00), play and organise food for them if they are still hungry.
Our oldest son can eat and drink by himself. His younger brother eats solid food and needs a bit assistance with spoonfeeding liquid food (even though he tries to do it himself). With their Montessori helper tower, the boys can access almost everything and are quite independent. We prepare ourselves a plate and sit next to them while we eat together.
-evening: we take time to cook a warm meal. If possible, we try to eat every evening all together.

Overall our 4yo son is autonomous and incredibly well communicating. He speaks germans (with minor grammatical mistakes), french and english fluently.
He can describe things, emotions and be very articulate on his needs or can describe very well situations. He is part of the bambini soccer team, run, dance, sing, and is quite advanced for his age. He is medium energy and can be trusted on a lot of things. We just have to be careful and cannot let him alone at the moment with his baby brother as he is learning to adjust to the new family dynamics of having a sibling.
Our younger son walks and can kick also a ball while walking, climbs and carry things, eat/grab by himself (fruits/ bit portions of food), open/close doors and is trying to repeat sounds to some words we say . He loves to play, has the most contagious laugh, listens to music and looks at books, is fascinated by water and sand. Both kids are very happy young persons and very eager to learn and discovering more.
You can use a stroller, bike or some other toys to have a walk in the village, or play inside or outside. There are parks, playgrounds in our village and we created a play area in our garden.

It's important to say that we treat our sons with respect and acknowledge them as persons with feelings. The aupair is to be treated the same way. Our oldest has to say “please” and “thank you” when asking something. He does it by the way. And is showing a lot of empathy.
We are incredibly happy for these boys to be in our life. For them having an aupair explain where she comes from and showing her home cooking/music/or other things is an added value which we think will benefit them.
We mostly do not use our mobile phones when the children are with us, playing or interacting with us. That way they don’t feel the need to have to "fight" to get our attention. Since you would be a part of our family, we would like you to adhere to this during your working time. TV is allowed when for example the weather in Winter doesn't allow to go out or kids are sick. But only in english or french so that it has educational value.

Aupair tasks: prepare food for our children, clean afterwards since our children are not yet perfectly coordinated to eat "mess free"(for example: if muesli with milk, it could be that there milk on the kids or on the floor). Cleaning include the children’s rooms and the common areas (living room, kitchen and entrance where the strollers are). Organize meals and cook on some evenings. Washing/ironing laundry. Ensure the overall hygiene of the children: if they got dirty outside or while eating you have to help him change to clean clothes, diapers etc.

Don’t be shy and ask us any questions you may have.