Au Pair in America Local Community Counselor, serving host families and au pairs in Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington, MA and surrounding towns
Au Pair in America is the nation's first legal au pair program. Since 1986, we have provided the best child care opportunities to host families across the U.S. and au pairs from around the world.
This January we met for a multi-cluster snowtubing event at Nashoba Valley Snowtubing Park. Over 50 au pairs attended this annual event and had a lot of fun exploring this activity. Counselors prepared hot chocolate and snacks that waited for au pairs after they came in from tubing the slopes to warm up. Here’s Read More
This December, we gathered with 3 other clusters at the Arlington Center for the Arts to celebrate the holidays. We enjoyed food that we all contributed, holiday music and caroling, a yankee swap, as well as a visit by Santa. For more photos, please go to holiday party. Read More
Our November cluster meeting was a self-defense course at Together in Motion in East Arlington. 2 other clusters joined us. Through a mixture of lecture and exercises, au pairs learned how to be more aware of potential aggressors and how to deter them. For more photos go to self-defense 2016. Read More
This month is Halloween month, so I decided to invite my au pairs for pumpkin carving. Au pairs were very creative in making designs for their pumpkins and had a good time together. We also enjoyed yummy Halloween food: For more photos, go to Halloween 2016 Read More
Once a year, we offer a host family workshop. We always make it a fun event that is interesting to host families. They usually bring their au pairs, too. This year we met at the Honey Pot Hill farm and we met with families from other clusters. Host families usually bring their au pairs as Read More
In September, we met at my apartment for an international potluck dinner. It was amazing to see all the different foods of the world! My whole kitchen was filled with wonderful smells and sights. I wish I had taken picture of it. We welcomed a few more new au pairs who enjoyed getting to Read More
In August, we went to Nahant Beach for our cluster meeting. It was a beautiful day, although a little bit windy (blowing sand all over us). We still had a good time, welcoming many new arrivals who made new connections during our meeting. This is why our meetings are so important: it really helps Read More
In June, we had planned to go canoeing and have a picnic in Concord. Unfortunately, it was rainy that day. On our rain date, most au pairs preferred to meet for coffee in Cambridge. So we picked up some coffee and sat near the Charles River in Cambridge. It was a nice, relaxing meeting. Read More
This month, we gathered at my place for a mid-week breakfast meeting. Some au pairs who were on duty brought their kids along. This was one of my largest meetings with 25 au pairs in attendance! We welcomed Katharina S., Anna, Lila and Lea to our cluster. We said good-bye to Veronika who is going Read More
