09/01/2026
An au pair is not a nanny. 🌿
Some families hire one expecting a full-time educator. Others rule the option out believing it is childcare on the cheap.
Both are wrong: it is not the same job.
An au pair is a young adult from Europe who lives in your home, takes part in the life of the household and cares for your children within an agreed framework. She has her own room, her days off, a social life.
What she brings that a nanny does not:
✔️ A living language — spoken at the table, in the car, over homework. Children do not learn it so much as catch it
✔️ A different way of doing things — your children discover there is more than one correct way to live
✔️ A flexibility of presence that hourly childcare cannot give
And the argument almost nobody knows about 👇
The international live-in stream faces a restriction in cities where local unemployment exceeds a regulatory threshold. It is not absolute — a documented medical condition in the household can lift it — but it stops a great many families.
The IEC program has no such constraint. Montreal, Laval, the South Shore, the Laurentians, the regions: the door is the same everywhere.
For a Montreal family that has already been told no elsewhere, it is often the first yes they hear. 💛
💰 $20 to $25 an hour. Timelines in weeks or months, not quarters.
👉 The full article: https://www.regency-nannies.com/au-pair-in-quebec-what-it-really-is/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organique_2026
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