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Does My Kid Benefit from an Online Teacher?

 2020 has proven challenging for most South African families with routines that have been flipped upside down. Mornings are replaced by logging into a virtual classroom before your kids have even had their breakfast. Finding a balance between online learning and the real world can be tricky to manage when whiteboards are replaced with screens…

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Au Pair Jobs

5 Tips to Help You Find Quality Au Pair Jobs Being an au pair means dealing with and getting to know a whole new family intimately, so a perfect match is vital for optimal results. Here are some tips to help you in your search for quality au pair jobs:   Be Passionate About Children…

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Au Pair Pretoria

Do You Want to Au Pair and Are You from Pretoria or Johannesburg? If you have a love for children and their healthy development, and also have training and/or experience in looking after children, a job as an au pair could be perfect for you. What’s more, if you live in the Pretoria or Johannesburg…

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Requirements to Become an Au Pair

Requirements to Become an Au Pair It is often said that children are the future. It is therefore so vital that they are looked after, cared for, and nurtured to become the best versions of themselves that they can be. As parents, life demands a lot from us and, as much as we would love…

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Au Pair Johannesburg

Where to Find the Best Au Pair in Johannesburg for Your Family   One of the biggest fallacies of modern society is that people are expected to navigate the challenges of life perfectly without help. Success is so often measured by how well you can stand on your own two feet. The truth is, however,…

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Family Au Pair

How to Become A Family Au Pair in South Africa   Do you love children? While there are many steps and requirements to becoming an au pair, this should always be the very first question you should ask yourself. There will be children involved, and you will be spending a lot of time with them.…

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How To Help Your Family Shine This Year

How to Help Your Family Shine This Year   Once again, we find ourselves fast approaching the end of the first quarter of the year. No matter how well we plan, time always seems to slip by faster than we expect. After a challenging 2019, many of us have pinned high hopes to 2020 and…

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Benefits Of An Au Pair For 2020

4 Great Benefits of an Au Pair for 2020   Every good parent wants the absolute best for their children. This includes quality schooling, great healthcare, the care and attention they deserve, and so much more. However, it also includes taking care of your own needs as a parent in order to successfully guide them…

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Childcare For The New Year

Have You Thought About Childcare for the New Year Yet? Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and many of us have the privilege of enjoying a lovely summer’s break for a couple of days to allow us to recharge for the year ahead. However, you also want to start the new…

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When to Hire an Au Pair

When Is It Time to Hire an Au Pair?   So, you are living the modern picture of success. You have a blossoming career, a healthy social life, and you have a beautiful family. Sounds idyllic, until you realise that one of these aspects will have to take a backseat. There simply is not enough…

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Babysitter Hire

Looking for a Babysitter? Hire Someone You Can Trust with These 5 Tips   No matter how much we would like to, we cannot be everywhere all at once. Modern life proves this to us time and time again as we try to balance our family with our careers and also try to maintain some…

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How to Protect My Child from The Internet

How to Protect My Child from the Internet   The Internet is a wonderful source of information and activities to help entertain and educate our children. At the same time, it can also be a scary place with many dangers lurking when we are not watching. With so many devices readily connected to the web,…

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Au Pair for School Holidays

Why It Is a Great Idea to Get an Au Pair for the School Holidays   The opportunities and demands presented by modern life often mean that both parents in a family are building a career and have to commit a certain amount of time to their work. While this is a great example for…

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Get an Au Pair For 2020

Read This Before You Get an Au Pair for 2020   Can you believe it – not just another year, but another decade is almost at an end. That is right – blink and we will be entering the roaring twenties of the 21st century. Whether you are ready for it or not, it is…

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Tips to Keep Children Safe from Predators

7 Tips to Keep Children Safe from Predators   It is probably every parent’s greatest fear: that our children will be abducted or be harmed by a nefarious predator. The mere thought of it is enough to send chills down one’s spine and to turn one into a dreaded helicopter parent. But apart from the…

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Au Pair Hire Cape Town

When Only the Best Au Pair Hire in Cape Town Will Do   As most mothers will attest, nothing on earth is more precious than our children. These bundles of joy bring light to our lives and we will do anything to give them the best life possible. Yet, to look after our family, we…

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Private Tutor

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Private Tutor?   At AuPair Extraordinaire, we pride ourselves in matching the perfect au pair, private tutor, and babysitter candidates to the right families to create a healthy, happy, and nurturing environment for the children. Because of our commitment to the wellbeing of the children and…

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Family Au Pair

What Makes a Candidate the Perfect Family Au Pair?   No two families are the same. Different families do not have the same characteristics, habits, or traditions, and neither do they have the same needs. Families can be as traditional or unconventional as you can imagine, and still be happy, whole families. And similarly, au…

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Au Pairs for Children

What to Ask When You Interview Au Pairs for Children   So, you have been considering getting some help around the house, especially when it comes to looking after your children. After all, they are your number one priority, and you want to make sure that they get the absolute best care and all the…

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Springtime – Encourage Kids to Play Outside

5 Reasons Why You Should Encourage Kids to Play Outside Now That It Is Spring   It is that time of year again – the mornings are getting lighter, the temperatures are starting to climb, and everything seems fresh, beautiful, and full of life. Gone are the days of snuggling up on the couch and…

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Au Pair Babysitter

Au Pair, Babysitter, or Tutor – Which Is Right for Your Family?   Family comes first, but time does not always allow us to give equal attention to all the responsibilities related to it. With the demands that modern-day living places on us, it is wise to create a support structure to ensure our families…

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Au Pair Johannesburg

Do You Want to Be an Au Pair? Johannesburg Offers Great Opportunities   Do you love children? Do you have a special way of working with them? Are you reliable, caring, and a great role model? Then you may want to consider becoming an au pair. Johannesburg and surrounds offer many great opportunities for professional…

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Why Do You Need an Au Pair?

Why Do You Need an Au Pair? Let us face it – the world moves at breakneck speed, and at times, it can be tough to keep up. Between focusing on a career, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and having some semblance of a social life, there is hardly time to run a household. Add children…

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What Can I Expect My Babysitter to Do?

What Can – and Should – I Expect of My Babysitter? Different families – and certainly different children – have very different needs. While there are basic tasks you can realistically expect of your babysitter, it is always advised to carefully go through all expectations and house rules to ensure that everyone is on the…

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Screened Au Pairs in Pretoria

Find Carefully Screened Au Pairs in Pretoria As a domestic assistant, a carer for your children, and possibly a live-in member of your household, an au pair is so much more than just an employee. This is a person whose credentials and abilities you must be able to trust without fail, which is why you…

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Professional Au Pair Agency

A Professional Au Pair Agency that Puts Your Family First In this day and age, it can be a challenge to meet all your commitments, which can include spending enough quality time with your family, helping your children in their development journey, growing your career, taking care of daily admin and chores, being active, having…

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How to Get My Child Off the iPad and Playing Outside

How to Get My Child off the iPad And Playing Outside Technology certainly has its advances. It allows us to stay in contact with people far and near, to share experiences, and also to perform certain functions at work and home a lot easier. It has also completely changed the kids’ play landscapes all over…

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How Our Au Pair Hiring Process Works

How Our Au Pair Hiring Process Works If you are looking for a position as an au pair in South Africa, we can help! At AuPair Extraordinaire, we specialise in connecting au pairs with families, and we take care of many important details in the process. Because the people we appoint are responsible for the…

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Why Do You Want to Be an Au Pair?

Why Do You Want to Be an Au Pair?   If you are an au pair, this is probably one of the questions you are asked most frequently: “Why do you want to be one?” For some, the answer could be very easy to answer, and for others not. The fact is, once you are…

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Au Pair Duties

Au Pair Duties: What You Can and Cannot Expect Your Au Pair to Do   Families of au pairs are not always completely clear on what the au pair duties entail. As a result, they may require certain duties that are not within the remit of the au pair, or they may not make full…

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Au Pair Agency Sandton

Looking for the Perfect Au Pair for Your Family? Try Our Au Pair Agency in Sandton!   Many families need help when it comes to taking care of their children, especially families with multiple children, single parents, working parents, or parents who often travel for business. Sometimes, help is needed when one of the parents…

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Why Encourage Kids to Play Sport

Why Encourage Kids to Play Sport   Sport is an integral part of most children’s lives. Most schools advocate that children take part in at least one summer and one winter sport. Families are also becoming more conscious of the importance of partaking in some form of sport as a family. There are many reasons…

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Au Pairs Johannesburg

Where to Find Brilliant Au Pairs in Johannesburg and Cape Town   A lot of families with working parents or with multiple children need the help of an au pair. There is often a range of skills and qualifications that your au pair will need, such as a driving licence, the ability to cook nutritious…

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Au Pairs for Families

4 Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Choosing Au Pairs for Families   Choosing an au pair for your family can be rather challenging. Our children are precious to us and we want their needs and safety to be taken care of as best as possible during the times when we, their parents, are unable to…

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Messy Play Ideas

Kids and Messy Play Ideas – Why It Is Important to Get Messy!   Many parents are put off by the idea of messy play. After all, it seems like a whole lot of trouble to clean up, do the washing, and then get the little ones clean! In modern times, messy play is often…