You're not hiring an employee — you're integrating a young adult from another country into your home for a year. That's a different problem than hiring a nanny, and it needs a different plan.
Tammy Gold, LCSW, spent years matching families with nannies before writing Secrets of the Nanny Whisperer (Penguin). Today she works beside families, and their agencies, as a neutral expert: defining the job, interviewing candidates, checking references and setting up the first 30 days.
An au pair is simultaneously a caregiver, a cultural exchange participant, and a person living far from home for the first time. Program rules cap hours and duties, homesickness is predictable, and the family's household becomes the workplace — all at once.
Most placements that fail don't fail on childcare skill. They fail on unclear expectations, no plan for the adjustment period, and no structure for raising problems before they become resentment.
A 60-minute session that maps your whole situation across all four BESE domains — what you actually need, not what you think you should want.
Selecting the right person, program, or setting against those needs — with the screening and interview structure to evaluate candidates properly.
Onboarding: expectations, communication, routines, and the first-thirty-days plan that decides whether it lasts.
Check-ins as the arrangement settles, plus the tools to handle problems before they become departures.
Some families need only the first stage. Others want all four, or ongoing support through a placement. Scope is set on the intro call.
Tammy has been retained as an expert in au pair litigation, which means the guidance here is grounded in what happens when placements go badly wrong — sponsor duties, host family supervision obligations, and the standards courts examine.
Every engagement is built on systems you can also buy on their own — the same frameworks, worksheets, and scripts, at your own pace.
Browse the library →General guidance only goes so far when it's your family, your schedule, and this particular caregiver. A Care Map call maps what your household actually needs, then builds the screening, matching, or repair plan around it.
$189
$150 / month
Questions first? Text (818) 308-1358 or email info@caremapmethod.com
Tell me your children's ages and where you are in the process.
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