Helpful Tips for Au Pairs
Webinars to help you manage your life in the U.S.
These informative sessions are designed specifically for you, giving you important tips that will help you get the most out of your year!
Hosted by your orientation trainers.
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the online meeting.
Sign up for as many as you’d like!
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For each webinar session, one Au Pair Webinar attendee will win a $20 Gift Card from Amazon.com!*
*Au pairs who leave the webinar before it is completed will not receive credit for attending that particular webinar.
Join us for our free online webinar sessions throughout the year!
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No Time for Boredom: Activities to do with Preschoolers
Please join Trainer Sandee Plescia for an engaging webinar that will help you keep your preschoolers entertained and busy all day long.
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Talk with a Trainer
Please join Orientation Trainer Sandee Plescia in a special open forum webinar presentation. Ask, listen and share. This is an opportunity to cover many topics of interest to you and to learn from your community. We look forward to hearing from you and facilitating this discussion.
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Help, My Kids Are Fighting Again!
This webinar addresses the age-old and universal issue of sibling fighting/conflict. In this webinar we ask au pairs to identify what they think generally might cause sibling fighting and to analyze the specifics in their family by keeping a conflict journal. The webinar has three main sections: why kids fight, the au pair’s role during a fight, and prevention of fighting. Au pairs are given specific tips for management during a fight, some advice on calming themselves, and tips on teaching children negotiation skills.
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Sleep: How to Get a Better Night's Sleep
Join Orientation Trainer Gwen Remy-Rahn for tips on how to get a good night's sleep.
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Talk Talk Talk: Activities to Develop Speech and Language in Young Children
The purpose of this webinar is to teach au pairs the importance of language and speech development in young children. It discusses how language and speech develop from birth up to age 5. It discusses the significance of interacting with and talking to babies, toddlers and preschoolers. It also explains the importance of reading to the children with examples of how to read to them. The webinar presents a multitude of activities that au pairs can implement with young children to enhance their language and speech.
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Homesickness and Culture Shock
Please join us to talk about homesickness. What is it? How does it feel? Tips on managing.
April Webinars Overview:
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100 Activities to Do With School Age Kids
This webinar was designed to give au pairs ideas of activities they can plan and implement with children ages six through twelve years of age. There are over 100 activity suggestions. Included in this webinar are characteristics of this age group so au pairs can have a sense of expected behavior. Safety is also emphasized as well as outdoor play.
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Teenagers: The Love/Hate Relationship
Teens can be challenging and/or rewarding. Find out how to control your attitude, your patience and your relationship with your teen. Sandee Plescia, Orientation Trainer and a lover of teens, talks it through with you.
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Going Home? Tips for Leaving the US and Settling In at Home
In this webinar we help au pairs anticipate and plan for the experience of repatriation. We take a close look at how they may feel as they prepare to leave the US and then what they can expect when they have landed at home.
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A Working Vacation: Successful Travels With Your Host Family
The focus of this webinar is to provide au pairs with a template for traveling with the host family as part of their childcare responsibilities. Pre-travel communication about host family expectations and the circumstances of the trip is a highlight of this webinar.
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Feeling Sad or Stressed? Tips for Gaining Balance in Your Life
Join Orientation Trainer Sandee Plescia for tips on how to manage your stress.
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Managing Play with More Than One Child
Are you taking care of multiple children? This is a great webinar for you. Discussing how to manage more than one child.
May Webinars Overview:
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How To Write the Best CV/Resume
Getting ready for the next phase of your life? Join Sandee Plescia for some excellent tips on preparing your CV/Resume. The future is yours!
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Summer Activities for Kids of All Ages
Do you need ideas about activities to do with the children? Join our new webinar on Summer Activities for Kids of All Ages.
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Long Distance Relationships
Did you leave a partner at home? Have you rematched and moved away while hoping to keep that new partner in the old location? Join us to explore the issues, challenges and rewards of long distance love.
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Travel Tips for Au Pairs
Hoping to see more of the US than your hometown? Join Sandee Pelscia as she explores where, how and what you need to know for a safe and fun trip.
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Toilet Training 101
This webinar explains how we toilet train the children in the United States. There are cultural differences in the process of toilet-training and they are discussed during the webinar. Included in this webinar is the jargon we use when toilet training, signs of readiness in the child, the process of toilet training, and timing of toilet training. There is an interactive question and answer session at the end of the webinar.
June Webinars Overview:
activities were really really great and I actually did the
Rheindeer-sleigh-fingerprint-one with my host kids today. The kids loved it and the host
mum said it was one of the best crafts she’d ever seen and she’s a preschool teacher.
ACTIVITY TIME: Infants & Toddlers
Your webinar leaders
It has been a wonderful opportunity to work for Au Pair in America since 1994 as a Community Counselor and since 1997 as an Orientation Trainer. Both jobs are fun and exciting. I am able to work with Au Pairs and Host Families to ensure they have a great year with the program. It has been a wonderful experience to get to meet so many Au Pairs from so many different countries and to learn from each other. The Webinars are an extension of this learning as we have designed them to bring Au Pairs additional information while living in the USA. I hope these webinars will help you and provide you knowledge to have your best year ever in America.
I have been a part of Au Pair in America as a Counselor since 2013. I have also been a part of our orientation team since 2014. I truly believe I have the best job in the world! Being a part of your journey with us brings me back to the beginning of my time with APIA because it really started long before I became a counselor… truth is that back in 2002, just like you, I left everything/everyone I knew and came on this crazy adventure. I am originally from France and came as an au pair with APIA back in 2002. I look forward to sharing my experience with you, hearing how you’re doing, and helping you make the most of your time with us.
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- PC-based attendees: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
- Mac®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer
- Mobile attendees: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android
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