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Au pairs are often asked to assist their host family in cooking an evening meal for the children. Basic cooking skills can be expected but we recommend tha…

We recently did a survey with our au pairs – here is some of their feedback :)  "Smartaupairs gave me the best match of family you could have! I'm so happ…

Welcome to all au pairs who joined their host family in January! :) An important part of settling in is finding friends in your area. Here are our top 5 t…

Can you believe we are ONLY 12 days into 2017! After New Year, we asked our au pairs to share photos which captured "Christmas/holiday season spirit" - he…

We are really pleased to welcome Tamara to the Smartaupairs team as our intern! Tamara has been an au pair in the UK herself and therefore knows exactly w…

Have you ever witnessed this many Santa's in one place? Nor had we... :) Tuuli, Chloe and Luisa (one of our brave au pairs!) took part in the London Santa…

Evelien is a 19 year old Dutch au pair, who started her placement with her host family in Surrey in October. Here she shares two of her blog posts, describ…

This week is National Nursery Rhyme Week and a few au pairs wanted to share some rhymes from their native language. Here are their contributions with an E…

Here are photos from two of our recent au pair meetups :) Thanks for all who have joined us in the past weeks! [gallery ids="3110,3106,3111,3108,3109,311…

Here are some wonderfully spooky Halloween photos from smartaupairs au pairs. The two winning entries are by Cornelia A and Caroline S!  They will both r…

Yesterday saw the biggest au pair event yet take place! Nearly 500 au pairs attended throughout the day. We had fun icebreaker activities to help au pair…

Autumn is a busy arrival time for 100s of au pairs and for this reason, we have been organising events nearly on a weekly basis to help all the newcomers t…