Work abroad in Anni's family for 3-12 Months starting from Apr 2023 as an Au Pair and Nanny to take care of 4 children of 0 - 1 year old, 1 - 5 years old & 6 - 10 years old in Sefton park, South Australia Australia

We are looking for someone who loves children and desires to build a relationship with them, treat them as their own little siblings and genuinely love them. Having older teens our children can look up to is important to us to set good role models for our children. We desire to treat our aupair the same, as part of our family, like a sister and help here in every way we can. We know how hard it can be to live away from family, especially in another country, so we will try our best to be as accomodating, gentle and welcoming as we can. Being a mum, and with both of us having years of experience with youth and young adults, we will probably also have a caring, mumma bear hat on, making sure you’re okay, well looked after and making sure you have everything you need - if you need a shoulder to cry on, I have your back.
As much as we would love for our children to build a real, genuine friendship and relationship with you as an older sister, we are also looking for someone who is willing to be intentional with the children, whether it mean giving clear boundaries or discipline. We’re passionate about raising children with a Christian worldview, pointing them towards to Word of God as the ultimate authority. We want someone who feels comfortable with this, and passionate for our children to look up to as a positive Christian role model.

We like to have our children outdoors and exploring as much as we can. We take children to many parks, encourage tree climbing, pretend play, water play, getting dirty & messy, bike riding, learning new skills/sports, stopping and listening to birds/nature, pointing out certain trees, certain findings, collecting treasure, noticing patterns in seasons, filling in a nature journal, sketching or painting part of nature, playing with friends, visiting zoos, beaches etc (yes there is always a big cleanup!). We desire our children to have a rich childhood with plenty of it outside which we know goes against the grain these days where children are on tablets and phones or cooped up indoors for hours in a day. With Anni having a newborn we know this will become more and more difficult for her so would love help from our aupair to do more of this. We would love to empower you in what ever ways you need in order to do this to provide rich learning and playing environments for our children. Weather this means purchasing things for you to use that we may not already have, buying memberships or tickets for you, etc.

The jobs we would love our aupair to help with include:
Helping in the learning of our 6 and 4 year old (I, Anni take on the responsibility of all our homeschooling including content, curriculums and lessons but would love an extra hand esp in times I have to work one on one with a child or attend to the newborn.) So I may give you some direction to help with some of the activities for the children which may include: art work, craft & handiwork, counting practice, listening to our children read, or read to them, assisting with music practice, working in sport skills, cooking with our children, taking our children for adventure in nature, for zoo trips & other excursions. It is important that our Au Pair has very strong English skills.
In the home, I would love help with regular home cleaning such as dishes, washing, floors, ironing & cooking and just general tidying up. It would also help to provide care for my younger 2 babies when I need to have a shower, pick something up from the shops, or take a nap etc.
The care for our children would include: helping them dress/bath, nappy changes, doing the bedtime routine, helping them at meal time in preparation, eating and cleanup, helping teach them basic skills such as tying shoe laces or brushing teeth, doing their hair etc.
I also need an extra pair of hands (sometimes) when attending regular events such as church, homeschool group, etc. but this wont be all the time.
The ministry we run in Adelaide consists of many volunteers (mainly young adults) from many different churches around Adelaide. If you would like to, you can have opportunity to be involved with volunteering which will allow you to meet and mix with many Christian’s around Adelaide.

I would just like to share our desired ‘week in the life’ for you which you may find helpful. Don’t freak out with the detail - we are actually a really flexible family (you have to be with little kids!) but we do have a plan of attack as a goal but it rarely ever gets achieved, but hey at least there’s a goal to strive for!

Here’s a dot point form followed by some more detail below.
Mon 7am-10:30am, 4pm-7pm (approx) (or could be flexible to have Monday night off)
Tue 7am-10:30am, 4pm-7pm (approx)
Wed 7am-10:30am, 4pm-7pm (approx)
Thurs 7am-10:30am, 4pm-7pm (approx)
Fri 7am-9am, night: OFF (approx)
Sat: OFF
Sun OFF/every other Sunday help Anni with kids at church, night: 4pm-7pm (approx) or could have Sun night off.

So you will have most week days OFF from approx 10:30-4pm free to explore, rest, do what ever you please - if you want to join us in what we’re doing in our days you’re more than welcome to.

Here’s a bit more detail if you like more detail! Just wanna paint a picture for you so you can feel comfortable and aware of what we’re thinking (we’re still flexible and happy for conversation to amend things)
Mon - Thurs from when the kids wake up (usually between 6am and 7am) helping (you wont be alone, just helping Ben or I) with getting them up, showers, getting dressed, breakfast, helping children with their chores & being intentional teaching them along the way (we view everything as learning and are passionate about training little ones) Followed by clean up after breakfast, morning blessing basket with Ben (a homeschool basket we do over breakfast), prepping lunches/packing bags if need be etc. Then looking after the little ones (taking them for a walk, singing nursery rhymes, reading books, playing a game with them, doing a few educational things, with them (which Anni will pre organise), maybe going to library for rhyme time or kindergym while Anni does some school work with Zahra for about an hour and a half. This should all be finished up somewhere between 10am and 11am.

You then have free all day to do what you please.

Then back again at around 3:30/4pm to help with: music practice, hearing Zahra read, maybe an art/craft or cooking activity, perhaps sport practice outside or working on a project with the children so Anni can go for a walk, prepare dinner, etc. We usually eat dinner around 5 or 6, followed by bathtime, story time, teeth, toilet, prayers & blessing with the children. This will allow Anni to help clean up after dinner, prepare things for the next day, help with bedtime/bathtime etc. The kids absolutely love stories. Kids are usually in bed by 7/7:30 which is when you can do what you please after that.

Friday nights can be flexible / mostly off or you can choose whether you wanna join us in family pizza and movie night or not. It will not be a work night for you but you are welcome to join in! If you drive, you’re welcome to use the car Friday nights.
Saturdays you can have off or join in with us if you please but again will not be a work day. Saturdays are usually all over the place, sometimes house work, gardening, birthday parties, visiting family, fun days. If on the odd occasion we need you to help with the kids on a Sat or another day, we will let you know in advance and you can def feel free to say no if you need it off. On the same token, if you want to have a weekend away or anything, please let us know as we would love to empower you to do those things and explore our beautiful country & enjoy yourself. Even if you want to store up hours then use it later - we’re flexible.

Sundays you are welcome to join us for church. Anni will need help every other Sunday with the children at church when Ben preaches elsewhere (usually twice a month). This would include helping get them ready for church, playing with prob the 1 year old during the service (we don’t have a crèche below 4 years old) while Anni looks after the baby. Church is at 10:30am. Sunday nights we usually try and get ready for the week, catch-up on washing, go over floors, set up homeschool for the week etc. we’re usually all hands on deck and my husband and I would love some time to plan/go over our week and maybe on the odd occasion a date night.

During the week if you would ever like to join in with any other activities we do you are more than welcome but will not be classified as working hours for you. Some of our commitments/outings include: zoo trips, museum trips, excursions, co-ops, homeschool group, library trips, play dates, grocery shopping, gymnastics/sport lessons, piano & Chinese lessons, hair appointments, dentist etc.

We do live a pretty hectic life with ministry, homeschooling and littles so you can see why there’s a bit of a need to have some structure to our life. But I want to stress that we definitely live with such a flexible attitude as our structure is pretty much never exactly as we plan. This is def a mindset we need to adopt as we have little ones that might wake up sick one day, might be having a growth spurt so need more sleep, something might get cancelled from another family or something might come up ministry wise - helping a neighbour, stranger, family member or friend.