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!
Word from attendees
Each month one Au Pair Webinar attendee will win a $100 Gift Card from Amazon.com!*
*Au pairs who leave the webinar before it is completed will not receive credit for attending that particular webinar.
Congratulations to Au Pair in America webinar raffle winner Patricia.
“Those webinars were really helpful for me in this quarantine. I felt much better after. Thank you so much! And the best part was winning a great Amazon.com gift card! ”
~ Patricia from Brazil
Join us for our free online webinar sessions throughout the year!
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Long Distance Relationships: Let's Talk about Them
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 Joan Barth, Lead Orientation Trainer, as she explores the issues, challenges and rewards of long distance love.
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Great American Holidays
What they are, what we do, how to celebrate with the kids and how to avoid the blues if it feels so different. Join Sandee Plescia to hear what lies ahead this year.
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Winter Activities for Kids of All Ages
Need ideas of activities to do with the children during the winter months? Join this webinar for over 100 creative things to do with kids of all ages. Sandee Plescia hosts this webinar.
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Temper Tantrums: Helping Your Child When They Feel Out of Control
Learn about why children have tantrums and what tools you can use to manage them most effectively. Joan Barth, Lead Orientation Trainer, will be your guide.
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Toilet Training 101
No more diapers? Need help with toilet training the children? Join us for tips and suggestions.
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Sleep: How to Get a Better Night's Sleep
Do you have a hard time falling or staying asleep? Please join Lead Trainer, Joan Barth, to talk about healthy sleep habits and tips to improve yours. We all want a good night's sleep!
January Webinars Overview:
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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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Talk with a Trainer
Please join Lead Orientation Trainer, Joan Barth, 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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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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Homesickness
Please join Lead Orientation Trainer, Joan Barth, to talk about homesickness. What is it? How does it feel? Tips on managing.
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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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Sleep: How to Get a Better Night's Sleep
Do you have a hard time falling or staying asleep? Please join Lead Trainer, Joan Barth, to talk about healthy sleep habits and tips to improve yours. We all want a good night's sleep!
February Webinars Overview:
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How to Write the Best CV/Resume Ever
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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Help, My Kids Are Fighting Again!
Do your kids fight, squabble, get on each other's nerves? Please join Lead Trainer, Joan Barth, for a closer look at sibling fighting and how to manage it.
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Activities to Do With School Age Kids
Join us for a fun look at the activities you can do with your school-age children.
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American Kids at Play
American kids are not allowed time for their own self-directed play. As an au pair, if part of your goal in the US is enhancing your experience in child care for your own future, tune into this important presentation on a timely subject. The average American child spends 7 minutes a day in outdoor independent play, a shocking number that impacts our children. Learn what can you do to make this giant contribution to your kid's development. Join Joan Barth as she shares her most important topic.
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Activities to Do With School Age Kids
Traveling with your host family? Learn how it might work, what to expect and how to make it fun for yourself and your family. Join Joan Barth, Lead Orientation Trainer, to learn how to make the most of this great opportunity.
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Successfully Communicating with Your Host Family
Communicating effectively with your host family is essential to a successful year. Join this webinar to learn about the keys to communication that will help you in all of your important relationships. Hosted by Sandee Plescia, Orientation Trainer.
March 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 my great pleasure to be a part of the Au Pair in America team since the first au pair arrived to the United States in 1986. I live near Boston, Massachusetts and served there as a community counselor for ten years. That was an amazing experience! Since 1991 I have been part of the Au Pair in America Orientation training team and I must say, this is a job that brings me great joy. Each time I greet a group of new au pairs I can feel the energy and the hopes that you bring with you. I know, too, that you come with many questions and a great desire for information, so that you can do your best job and have your best year. Orientation is a beginning. Webinars are a continuation of your training. I am delighted to expand that training and education process with you as you develop more specific questions. I look forward to speaking with you and to helping you enhance your experience.
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.
System Requirements
- 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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