Whilst living with your host family, you care for the children and share their home life. In your free time you can study, explore the local area, get to know the culture and meet up with other Au Pairs. As an Au Pair, you care for the children for up to 45 hours a week. You will not work more than 10 hours in any one day or more than 5½ days a week, so you have plenty of free time to do what you want to. All your jobs are centred on the children, so you're not expected to do heavy housework duty. Typically, you would be responsible for: - waking the children and dressing, bathing and playing with them
- preparing meals for the children, tidying up after them, making their beds and washing their clothes
- driving the children to and from school or their activities
- helping with homework
- babysitting in the evenings when the parents go out
| Your schedule will depend on the ages of the children e.g. if you look after school aged children, then you will have quite a bit of free time during the day while the kids are at school.
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