Join our family and help with childcare in Tokyo, Japan

Detalhes

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  Descrição

  Stay in the center of Tokyo with a fun host family! We have three kids. We want our kids to grow up in an international environment. We look for people who love kids and are fun.
  
  I manage my own VR (Virtual Reality) company. I am busy with work so I appreciate your help.
  
  We have three kids aged 2,4, and 6. The older two are quite independent and can do a lot of things on their own so a lot of times they need accompany, supervision and encouragement. The oldest boy likes Bayblade. Our daughter loves Disney Princesses. The youngest one likes vehicles. They are all full of energy.

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  Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

  Projetos artísticos

  Prática de idiomas

  Ensino

  Cuidar de crianças/atividades criativas

  Ajuda a cuidar da casa
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  Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

  You would be able to experience an ordinary urban Japanese lifestyle through staying with us. On weekends and holidays you can go on a trip with us.
  
  Here we have so many seasonal events and you will be able to enjoy the city from local perspective. If you are here in the spring, we can watch sakura bloom together. If you are in the summer, we can go to the beach together and also go to local summer festivals. If you are here in the fall, we can climb a mountain together and watch the red and yellow leaves on the tree. If you are in the winter we can go skiing together. If you also like Sanrio, we can go to Sanrio Puroland together. The list goes on.
  
  We have been to a lot of places all over Japan and also other countries like Taiwan and Korea with workawayers. This year and next year we want to go to Ishigaki island, Thailand and Singapore. We also like to go to cute cafes, nice restaurants, parks, amusement parks, beaches, resorts and islands.
  
  If you love kids, are interested in Japanese culture and want to try to live here for a few months to see this country, this would be perfect place for you. Immerse yourself fully into an urban life in Tokyo and let’s explore the country with us.

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  Projetos que envolvem crianças

  Este projeto pode envolver crianças. Para mais informações, veja aqui nossas diretrizes e dicas.

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  Ajuda

  We are currently looking for someone who can stay with us from the beginning of August 2024 and stay with us for three months.
  
  We'd like to host workawayers who love kids and speak fluent English. We are looking for someone who is friendy, punctual, communicative, responsible, hygienic, tidy, open-minded, and willing to help out.
  
  Your responsibilities include:
  -Take the kids to the park or play center
  -Read books for the kids
  -Organize toys and books
  -Sometimes stay home with the kids while I run some errands
  -Take the kids to the kindergarden in the morning & pick them up in the evening
  -Speak English to the kids
  -Help the kids when they eat
  -Light house work (i.e. vaccuming the floor)
  
  The older two kids (4&6) are quite independent so most of the time they just need accompany and encouragement. The youngest one (2) cannot do much by himself so he needs a caregiver but usually his mom is around to watch him.
  
  The kids go to the school on weekdays so you will also be free during that time. The schedule is flexible but it also depends on other workawayers' schedule if there are a few workawayers at the same time. We ask workawayers to help in the morning (7:00-9:00) and in the evening on weekdays. We can discuss and decide the schedule that works for everyone. Workawayers usually have 3-4 days off a week. You will have a lot of free time to enjoy the city. We respect your own time and goals.
  
  During weekends and holidays we often visit parks, science museums, theater (kabuki, sumo etc), zoo, aquarium and amusement parks so it would be great if you also like those kind of activities and could join us. When we go out together we will pay for the admission tickets and also food. We can also enjoy seasonal events like hanami together. During summer, we often go to water parks and beaches. In August there are summer festivals every weekends. In winter we go to Niigata to enjoy snow mountain and onsen so it would be great if you like skiing. The kids like beaches so we go to the islands in Okinawa often. We have a family in Sapporo so we visit them sometimes.
  
  We have a dishwasher and use online supermarket so you won’t have to wash the dishes or go grocery shopping.
  
  We ask workawayers to speak English to the kids so if your primary purpose to come to Japan is to learn the language then this might be not be the best environment.
  
  Please note that medical care is not free in Japan so please have a health insurance while you stay in Japan. Please also note that we do have a preference of working with female workawayers.
  
  Due to large volume of requests we would like to give this opportunity to someone who we think we can be both beneficial. In addition to be able to just enjoy ordinary Japanese life, someone who is ready to jump in and enjoy the activities and trips with the kids and can be more like their friends than just a care giver would be more fitting. Only the youngest one needs a care giver and other kids are quite independent so they usually just need accompany to enjoy.

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas
  Inglês: Fluente
  Japonês: Fluente
  Espanhol: Iniciante
  Chinês (mandarim): Iniciante

  Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
  We are learning English, Chinese and Spanish. We ask workawayers to speak English (Spanish or Mandarin) to the kids. I am happy to be your Japanese conversational friend when the kids are not around. The kids speak good English.
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  Acomodação

  Workawayers stay in the guest room in our flat. You will have your own bedroom, shared bathroom and kitchen. Our apartment is located in a pretty convenient area in Chiyoda-ku, which is 10 mins from Tokyo station and Ueno station, 15 mins from Ginza and Tsukiji, and 20 mins from Asakusa. 30 minitus to Shinjuku and 40 minutes to Shibuya and Harajuku. Also access to airports is good: 40 minutes to Haneda and 70 minutes to Narita. You can walk to Akihabara, Kanda, Ueno, Ningyocho and Nihonbashi. You will have a plenty of opportunities to explore Tokyo. You can just walk to some of the major area in Tokyo and also Tokyo has an extensive public transportation system so it is easy to access everywhere in Tokyo and also to any other cities in Japan.
  
  Tokyo is an amazing city that offers so many places to visit, so many things to do and eat so you will never be bored here. There are always something going on. On your day offs, in addition to exploring the city you can also enjoy trip to other cities such as Okinawa, Sapporo and Osaka. My sister lives in Sapporo and she is also a workaway host so our workawayers sometimes also go stay with her. Also Seoul is only two hours away by airplane and it is very fun city and very different from Tokyo so it could be a good weekend trip option.
  
  As for meals, breakfast and lunch you can help yourself. There are usually cereal,yogurt, fruit, bread, pasta and other things that are easy to eat in the kitchen so please feel free to help yourself. Dinner you can always eat with the kids and it is also ok if you don’t feel like what we prepare and you can prepare your own food. We eat meat often and the kids like to eat happy meal at McDonalds. We also order pizza once a week. This environment might be difficult if you are a vegetarian or have food restriction.

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  Algo mais...

  I personally had a difficult time when I lived in Boston because of my language skill. Many good people helped me during my stay, so I'd like to give them back to people who stay in Japan.

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    Acesso à internet

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    Acesso à internet limitado

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  Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

  1

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  Horas previstas

  Maximum 25 hours a week including weekend activities with 3-4 days off

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