Fragenliste fuer das Telefoninterview

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Here is a list of questions to ask your potential future Hostfamily:

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Name

Telefonnummer

Mailadd.

Stadt und Staat

KIDS

• Hobby
• Age/ Class
• Names
• Personality characteristics (what happens if they loose a game; if they don’t get what they want; strict with them; often say no;)
• Special needs, diet, allergies, illness
• Religious? Attend church? Want me to come with you?

PARENTS

• Family activities? Hobbies you enjoy together?
• Their hobbies?
• What are the characteristics of the hostparents?
•  How do they get there?
• Where do they work? How far away from home?
• Buisnesstrips?
• Continuous schedule? When do they leave and when do they come back?
• Full work or part-time work?
• What do they do/work?
• Are you living in a house or an apartment?
• How does the neighborhood look like?
• Nature?
• yard?
• Parks in the area?
• Beach or lake?
• Do you have a pool?
• Where do the grandparents or other relatives live?
• How is the relationship with other relatives? Are the kids there often?

GENERAL RULES/WORKING

• My duties?
• Laundry?
• Clean up kids rooms?
• How do the kids rooms look like?
• Do you have cleaninglady?
• Vacuum/clean the house?
• Do you have playroom?
• Am I cleaning it up?
• Are the kids supposed to clean up after themselves? (after dinner, snacks etc.)
• I just remind and supervise?
• Typical weekday?
• When get up?
• Make lunch?
• Do I wake them up?
• Am I alone with the kids in morning?
• When does school start?
• Do they take a bus?
• Do I drive them to school?
• From when till when is school?
• After school activities?/ their Hobbies
• What Hobbies and after school activities would they enjoy with me? Art work? Sport in the yard?
• Will I cook dinner?
• Just for kids or for whole family?
• What are you eating in general? Just organic and expensive or regular stop and shop stuff?
• Who makes the grocery shopping?
• What do you want me to do while the kids are in school?
• How many hours during the week?
• Most of the hours during week and almost nothing during weekend or one day off during week and therefore working on the weekend?
• Or are the kids with you every weekend?
• Do I work often in the evening? Babysitting? Kids in bed and I’m just home?
• Do you visit the grandparents often?
• How do you raise your kids? Discipline? What do you focus on?
• Do you say often no?
• Do you want me to discipline too or just remind them with sentences like “you parents would not appreciate that”?
• Can I make decisions like ‘no TV today’ and you back me up?
• What are they doing during summer and other vacation-times?
• Do they have playdates?
• Can I make and plan them with other mothers and other aupairs?
• How many kids come for each playdate?
• How many kids in the neighborhood?
• Any places for kids in the area? (Museum, zoo, parks, aquarium, movie theatre, lake, beach, amusement parks?)
• Do you travel often? Any vacation planed?
• When will I have vacation?
• Am I off on holidays?
• Do you let me join you?

ICH

• Have you ever been to Germany?
• Why are you interested in German aupair?
• How many aupairs did you already had?
• Why do you want to get an aupair instead of an American nanny?
• What is an aupair for you?
• Do you have one right now?
• Are you happy with her?
• How many aupairs are in the area?
• How do you like the counselor?
• Name and Number?
• Do I have curfew?
• Other houserules?
• Where in the house is my room?
• Do I share a bathroom?
• Do you have pets?
• Am I responsible for them?
• Do I have an own car?
• Can I use it in my free time and during the weekend?
• Do just I use the car or also the parents?
• Can I just use one car or all the family cars?
• Does the car has restrictions? Curfew or special area?
• How will my first days after arrival look like?
• Can aupair-friends come over to visit me during the day and also stay over night?
• Do you allow visitors from Germany?
• College in the area?
• Do you have internet at home?
• Computer I can use?
• What do you liked about my application that made you call me?

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