{"id":343,"date":"2012-09-14T08:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2012\/09\/14\/au-pair-breakfast-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:49:01","slug":"au-pair-breakfast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2012\/09\/14\/au-pair-breakfast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Pair Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/September2012%20Breakfast\/ClusterMeetingSeptember2012008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This month our monthly meeting was a breakfast at my house.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It must have been my biggest meeting ever!\u00a0\u00a0 19 of my au pairs attended, and since many of them take care of children during the day, some of them even brought their children.\u00a0 As you can see, it was a crowd!\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately we had a nice day and could sit out in the backyard, and the kids had the chance to run around and play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/September2012%20Breakfast\/ClusterMeetingSeptember2012006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With many new au pairs arriving over the summer, this meeting was a chance for the new arrivals to meet each other and the more seasoned au pairs in the group.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We said good-bye to Ramata who will go back to France and to Karolina who is going back to Poland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both of them gave advice to the new au pairs on how to have a successful au pair year.<\/p>\n<p>This month we also had our required child care &amp; safety discussion.\u00a0 As per State Department regulations, we need to offer this at least once every three months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We discussed discipline and au pairs were able to bring in their own experiences and listen to what others had to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>For more photos from this meeting, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/s975.photobucket.com\/albums\/ae238\/bettinavelona\/September2012%20Breakfast\/\">Au Pair Breakfast.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month our monthly meeting was a breakfast at my house.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It must have been my biggest meeting ever!\u00a0\u00a0 19 of my au pairs attended, and since many of them take care of children during the day, some of them even brought their children.\u00a0 As you can see, it was a crowd!\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately we had  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boh\/2012\/09\/14\/au-pair-breakfast-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[18,21,23,26,32,225,56,175],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-things-we-do","category-uncategorized","tag-arlington","tag-au-pair","tag-au-pair-breakfast","tag-au-pair-in-america","tag-au-pairs","tag-child-care","tag-child-care-safety-discussion","tag-safety"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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