Monthly Archives: October 2016

Cultural Calendar

APIA offers many services to our families. One that I haven’t yet mentioned is our Cultural Calendar. This handy calendar shows the special days and times of year in a easy-to-read visual calendar. It will help your au pair better understand seasons and celebrations in America as well as provide a calendar for possible fun activities. We try to include activities that families an au pairs can use with all different ages of kids. For example, the October calendar includes everything from recipes to celebrate Cookie Month, to Le Courbusier’s birthday.

Take a minute every month, or just when you’re looking for things to do with kids, to check out our Cultural Calendar!

http://www.aupairinamerica.com/resources/calendars/index.asp

Infant and Child First Aid/CPR scholarship

Au Pair in America includes first aid training in our orientation, which all of our au pairs attend when they first arrive in the U.S. We also offer a scholarship which will pay for Infant and Child First Aid and CPR training through the Red Cross. We want all of our au pairs to be the most highly qualified in the industry, and we provide ongoing training to help meet that goal.

We also offer ongoing training quarterly during our au pair cluster meetings, and we have regular webinars for the au pairs on a variety of topics.

If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out!

Fall in Minnesota

There are so many fun things to do with kids in Minnesota! We have apple orchards, pumpkin patches, haunted houses (some of which aren’t too scary, but some are, so be careful!) beautiful drives through changing trees, football games, and all kinds of Halloween activities.

It’s also a great time for au pairs and families to talk about fall in other countries. Some places don’t even have fall! So this could be the only chance she has to see leaves change from green to red, orange, yellow, or brown.

Take a look around your community and see what kinds of things you can do, that you haven’t taken advantage of in years past. I bet everyone can find something new. Comment on your best idea of how to celebrate this amazing season!