Things to do

Do your kids have a long holiday break from school coming up soon?  Looking to get out of the house and do something interesting?  Check out my newly-updated THINGS TO DO List! Each item listed is a resource to discover up-to-date information regarding goings-on in the area.  You can even select a few of your Read More

Au Pairs using Global Awareness

Top Ten – 10 Best ways Au Pairs have used Global Awareness in their Communities        (not in any particular order) Classroom presentations: While it may be daunting to speak in front of a group, not a single au pair has ever come back telling us she did not enjoy it. All of them Read More

Pattie Fitzgerald on Children’s Safety

As a part of the Gooden School’s Parent Education Live Speaker Series, children’s advocate, author, and founder of Safely Ever After, Inc., Pattie Fitzgerald will speak on on Thursday, November 15 at 6:30 p.m. Pattie is recognized as a leading expert in the field of childhood sexual abuse prevention education, child abduction prevention, and internet safety education. You Read More

Flu Shot Time!

Now is the time to discuss getting the flu shot with your host parents.  The “Flu” is generally thought of as a routine illness that makes you feel lousy for a week or two.  But the reality is that “Influenza” is an historically deadly illness in America.  Each year, different strains of the flu are Read More

Halloween

 The tradition of celebrating spirits of the dead, especially in the autumn, is largely universal to a variety of different world religions and cultures.  Though specific legends and beliefs vary, by 1930’s America, several of those celebrations of the dead were cobbled together to form the version modern-day Halloween, as well as the days that Read More