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THIS WEEKEND ONLY: Up to $1000 in Savings!!!

Families new to Cultural Care Au Pair who apply from July 15th - July 20th are eligible to save up to $1000* by earning:

* A $75 application fee waiver
* One month of FREE childcare: the equivalent of a $550 program fee discount
* Complimentary overseas connection service during the matching process (a $150 value)
* A free Sony Blu-Ray disc player (valued at over $200) upon welcoming an au pair into your home by October 22, 2010

* Terms and conditions apply
One Month of FREE CHILDCARE

To make our program even more affordable, we are offering families who apply between July 6th and July 31st a $550 program fee discount—the equivalent of one month of FREE CHILDCARE! Families will also receive a free overseas connection service during the matching process (a $150 value). The total value of this promotion is $700! To enjoy these savings, families must be new to Cultural Care Au Pair and must welcome an au pair into their home by October 22, 2010.  PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MORE INFORMATION AND THE PROMOTION CODE FOR THIS OFFER!

Click this for a wonderful article for parents (and au pairs) and yes I am a new one!!!!

http://www.galtime.com/index.php/web/557-save-your-sanity-while-working-from-home

Of host families polled, the number one reason they love having an au pair is because their family’s quality of life improves. Apply now for FREE and see what life could be like this summer with an extra set of hands to help care for the kids!

A few other reasons why moms and dads love our program? Cultural Care Au Pair offers:
-Up to 45 hours of live-in childcare per week
-The ability to schedule your hours according to your family’s needs-date night anyone?
-An average weekly cost of just $340 (per family, not per child)
-The largest pool of qualified au pair candidates
-Local support all year long

When you apply by June 30th, 2010 using promotion code PCCYR2010, you can start matching with no obligation! We will waive our $75 application fee and you will receive a $350 program fee discount AND our overseas connection service during the matching process ($150 value). Your total savings is a $575 value!  Click on link at right to start!

BRAND NEW RESOURCES TO HELP YOU FIND IMMEDIATE CHILD CARE!

Available nanny/au pairs:  www.incountryaupair.com

Au pairs in the rematch process:  www.newhostfamily.com

“Every family’s child care situation is different. Finding the right type of provider is a key part of making sure your kids have the care they need. Are you thinking about hiring a nanny? Or have you considered becoming a host family for an au pair? If you’re wondering which way to go, I have some advice to point you in the right direction.”  Article from care.com.  Click here to read more!

Multi-talented Summer (Xiafang Qi) from China needs a new host family!  Summer is very good at music, calligraphy & knitting.  She also likes to cook and clean for children.  You can review Summer’s application here.  Please email me asap if you are interested in Summer!  It is first come, first serve in the au pair biz!

Tracy, Ina & Renata!

The wonderful thing about second year extension au pairs is that they have already been here one year and come with great references from their current host families.  They would love to stay in San Diego and are available for interviews!  If you are interested in learning more about these au pairs, please contact me asap!

1. Ina from Korea - Available 6/21/2010

2. Tracy from China - Available 7/5/2010

3. Renata from Brazil - Available 8/1/2010

We are having our annual CCAP Regional Meeting this weekend at Disney World.  I will be learning all of the latest news and hopefully will be coming back an even better LCC!

If you need any help during my absence, please contact Elissa David. Elissa is an LCC in the Northern San Diego area.  She will also be signing in all of the au pairs at our monthly au pair meeting this Sunday in Del Mar.

by Deepak Chopra

There is a profound Buddhist doctrine that speaks of a great river that flows through all of reality. Once you have found yourself, there is no more cause for action. The river picks you up and carries you along forever after. In other words, effort from the personal level, the kind of effort all of us are used to in daily life, become pointless after a certain point. This includes mental effort.

Once you become self-aware, you realize that the flow of life needs no analysis or control, because it’s all you. The great river only seems to pick you up. Actually, you have picked yourself up; not as an isolated person, but as a phenomenon of the cosmos. No one gave you the job of steering the river. You can enjoy the ride and observe the scenery.  Learning to step aside from your false responsibilities means giving up your urge to control, defend, protect, and insure against risk. All of that is false responsibility.

To the extent that you can let it go, you will stop interfering with the flow. To the extent that you cling, life will continue to bring even more things to control, and to defend yourself against. Risks will loom everywhere.  It’s not that fate is set against you. You are simply seeing reflections of your deepest beliefs, as consciousness unfolds the drama drawn up beforehand in your mind. It’s the universe’s task to unfold reality; yours is only to plant the seed.

Click here: Host Family & Au Pair Day @ Solidrock Gym 3/28/10

Screening a future au pair is paramount.  Moms accross the USA have chimed in on this…  These questions were from discussions at www.aupairmom.com and compiled by moderator CV Harquail.  See the questions.

Monday, March 15th will mark the launch of our Spring 2010 Satisfaction Survey. All Cultural Care host families who are actively hosting an au pair will receive a survey via email. CCAP reads and considers the responses of all the surveys. This really is your opportunity to voice your concerns and make suggestions regarding desired changes in the program. Many changes, including a new payment plan and two new ways to match, were initiated this past year based on previous survey responses. I would love to have 100% of my families participate this year, so please try to fill out the survey. It takes just a few minutes to voice your many concerns. This is what the information on the email will look like:

* The email families receive with the invitation to complete the survey comes from “Cultural Care Au Pair” with sender email address no-reply@culturalcare.com.

* The subject header for the email invitation is “Cultural Care Au Pair - Customer Satisfaction Survey”.

*There will be a drawing for a $25 gift certificate for all host families who have completed the host family survey at our next host family meeting!  Cultural Care will also award $1000 to one lucky host family.

I look forward to hearing from all of you. Thank You.

This article is by Amanda Ford, an ehow contributing writer… Here is the original posting.  (I think it is very valuable information for new au pairs too.)

In our modern world–we have a plethora of options for communication. You can ring, ping, email, fax, text, post, comment, tweet, myspace, facebook or skype. Nearly anywhere you go–anytime you want–you can be logged on and dialed in. We are easily the most connected society in the history of mankind. Yet, despite our ability for constant contact, (or perhaps because of it) feelings of social isolation persist. It is my hope that these tips will help you work through those feelings.

Step 1- Stop comparing your life to the lives of others. Absolutely everything you “know” about others is based on assumptions of a partial picture. We can never really know what goes on inside the mind and heart of another person, because what we show to the world is an edited version of ourselves. You know how it is: we put on happy faces and rarely talk about our pain even with those who are closest to us; therefore, what we see of others is really an incomplete picture. Comparing the complete picture of your life (which, of course, only you see and experience every day) to the incomplete picture of another person’s life is futile and stupid. Remember, just because you see a group of people laughing while hanging out together at a bar doesn’t mean they are all having a good time. Just because you see a couple locked in a loving embrace doesn’t mean they don’t fight beyond closed doors. You cannot and should not judge the quality of your life based on what you see of the lives of your friends or stories you hear in the media.

Step 2 - Speaking of media, be conscious of what media you consume and how it affects your beliefs and feelings about your life. All media stories are witnessed, sifted, filtered, crafted and edited. Media stories are also partial pictures created to evoke a certain feeling or prove a specific point. By media stories, I’m not just talking about traditional television programs or movies, but I am also talking about “reality” television, blog posts and even Facebook pages. Things that appear in these formats are always edited to show a desired slant, even casual snapshots or off-the-cuff status updates.

Step 3 - Allow yourself to feel your feelings of loneliness. It is OK to feel lonely. Loneliness is not unique to you, nor is it proof that you are weird or a social outcast. Loneliness is a natural part of the human condition. When you feel loneliness, know that you are not alone. Hopefully, this will help you feel less lonely.  Read more

An awesome activity for au pairs is bowling!  This is an activity that can be done on Friday & Saturday nights!  Many bowling alleys turn on their blacklights, laser lights & pump up the music!

This Sunday the 28th, we are meeting at Surf Bowl in Oceanside. The hours are from 2-6pm. We will form teams of 4 people and play two games of bowling plus one game of laser tag. You will stay with your team for all of the games! The cost of this event is $20 which includes the two games of bowling, one game of laser tag and one pair of (rented) bowling shoes. (The place is kind of 50ish but is fun and is the only place in SD with a laser tag arena!) Here is the link: Surf Bowl

Please carpool together or meet at my house at 1pm to carpool with me.  (As I will be headed to Oceanside, I can pick up some au pairs at a central meeting point like a Starbucks too!) Please email me if you are going or not so I can get a count!

Congratulations to all of the au pairs who were nominated as it is an honor to be recognized by your host family!  Congratulations to Lilia Marian from our group!

Cultural Care Au Pair received almost 200 nominations for the “Au Pair of the Year” Award, three of which we sent to the International Au Pair Association for final consideration. (Each au pair agency is allowed to submit just three nominees.) Watch our movie to meet Cultural Care Au Pair’s three finalists, Ann-Kathrin, Patrizia and Sandra and to see photos and the names of ALL of our nominees. Thanks to all of our host families who submitted nominations, and congratulations to each and every Cultural Care au pair who was nominated. You are all winners in our book!