A Colorado family saves $7,000 a year using au pair childcare!
by Stephanie Rueter
Nele Grasshoff, Cultural Care au pair of Hamburg, Germany with her host children.
The Summit Daily News of Colorado reported this week on the Ramsay Family who switched from day care to au pair childcare when their second daughter was born. Tammy Ramsay knew she had to re-evaluate her child care options due to the high cost of putting two kids into day care.
Says Tammy, “It’s been a journey for our family. We wanted to try it for a year. Now we wonder how we did it without it.” She calculates that her family has saved about $7,000 since welcoming their first au pair, Nele, into their home last fall.
The Ramsays also appreciate the one-on-one care Nele provides and the cultural exchange that comes as an added benefit to the program. “For me, it’s so great as a mom having the one person,” Tammy says. Since Nele shares her German language with the kids, they will potentially grow up tri-lingual as “the kids will also be learning Spanish at Dillon Valley Elementary.”
To read the full article, visit the Summit Daily News online.
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