Au pair family without their own bathroom?
I'd like to go to Australia next year as an au pair. I don't know how most families do it, but I personally would be very happy if I had my own bathroom with a host family. Also because I've heard that many au pairs share a bathroom with their host children, and I wouldn't want that, as I know how messy and disgusting children can leave a bathroom. I'd be okay with sharing a bathroom with my host parents, but I'd prefer to have my own bathroom, simply for privacy and so there are no arguments about times. What are your experiences?
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It is extremely rare that aupairs get a private bath – because here in Germany too are two separate baths destined the absolute exception.
You should rethink your plans, with the requirements it won’t be…
Bring your own bathroom with laugh.
Or get used to public toilets. It’s possible.
And breakfast to bed? They’re not holidays.
That’s exactly what you can teach the children as an Au Pair. Be a good example and teach the children order and cleanliness.
Families also take a big risk with an Au Pair from abroad. They open their house for a completely strange person. This one day knows all the issues and the handling within the family. If they had a bath for you, which they probably don’t have, they would be happy not to have to share with you. Remember, they give an Au Pair a chance with the knowledge that their bathroom needs to be shared. That’s great!
You’ll write later that you didn’t really express yourself. Only in the phrase “children are chaotic and disgusting” my forehead lays in wrinkles. Such a spell as an applicant for an internship in our kindergarten for ne I would like to thank you. Of course, children are chaotic. They are wonderfully chaotic and imaginative and challenging. I feel disgusting about it. They are not sterile and not clean. They clink at dinner and, depending on age, diapers must also be changed. With an infect, it can pass, even several times… then it can happen that you’re gonna throw it away. This is the nursing aspect. They pop and scratch at the Po, find teeth cleaning boring. This is the educational aspect. Would you like to think again realistically about… would you like to be Au Pair?
Note: I have not titled children directly as gross, only that they often leave a bathroom disgusting, which an adult person simply disturbs. I can’t find children myself disgusting.
on the basis of your answer the user should really think about whether au pair is really what for you.
the main task of an au pair is child care and after crashing simple household activities. you’ll be paid!
this is not like a student exchange where the host family takes care of one and has fun. you’re here to work!
a private bathroom to “reason” is quite unharmed and alien to the world.
I put myself wrong, I don’t need my own bath. just a family that takes me up with open poor is that too much?
I love working with children by the way and I will take care of the children with much geduld, love and creativity. it makes me incredibly much joy to accompany children. I want to get out of my comfort zone and get jealous. So I think this is the absolutely right way for me. if there is no private bathroom, there is no private bathroom, i’ll deal with that.
I just want to prepare myself as well as possible for my au pair year and inform me and had a lot of warning until jz nd, but since many here want to ruin the anticipation by saying that one is treated by every family like a cheaper hired I had to say something against. please don’t even try to beat these plans. I absolutely need this step for my development and answer how yours create enormous uncertainty with me. that I find jz rather unharmed.
Yeah, okay, then you just really put yourself completely. as you formulated it, it sounded very lifted.
the family is like a lottery, either it fits, or not. 3 people in my narrower environment were as au pair in the usa. one of them was really happy, with one there were more problems with the mother and one had the absolute horror and then could change the family where it was just mega.
As an Au Pair, you are a cheap assistant to the vast majority of families if you only get your own room for you (so not even laundry room, fitness room…), you can be happy. You have to be aware of the above, even if you have a private bathroom, that the children still keep you in order…
The parents will certainly not share a bathroom with you, as their bathroom is only to enter from their bedroom. The least houses have more than 2 bathrooms.
How do you want to know that their bathroom is only to enter from their bedroom? I as a parent and hospitable would share one with the children at 2 bathrooms and let the au pair have a private bathroom. so that an au pair feels more comfortable.
You are not primarily there to feel comfortable, but to go hand to the family with childcare: you are homeworkers, no more!
Because I live in Australia and know the houses and circumstances. And the master bedroom doesn’t give anyone to the Au Pair.
Want to be a family member, but claim a private bathroom…
in luck, it’s the way you wish. but you can’t assume.
But it is important to me that I still feel comfortable there, it is clear to work but I would not accept a family that treats me as a cheap home worker. I want to be a family member for the time and I think it is part of the fact that the family (of course in the frame of their possibilities) tries to feel at home and I feel comfortable. I live quietly there, so much compassion I expect from my hospitables otherwise I honestly don’t want to come into this family if I’m just a home worker. if the family is not possible that I have a private bathroom, that’s okay.
You can want what you want, but you’ll have to do according to the circumstances there.
So don’t do it.
but: so eat!