House rules let you document the agreements and expectations of your household. Both parties — family and au pair — can view the rules, but only the family can create and edit them.

Categories

Rules are grouped into 8 categories to keep everything organized:

• Schedule — working hours, breaks, and availability
• Childcare — agreements about caring for the children
• Kitchen — cooking arrangements and kitchen use
• Room — rules about the au pair's room
• Guests — when and how guests are welcome
• Transport — use of car, bicycle, or public transport
• Communication — how you communicate with each other
• General — other household agreements

Getting started

If you don't have any rules yet, you can choose to start with suggested templates. These are 20 common rules for au pair households in the Netherlands. You can customize or remove them afterwards.

Editing rules

Click on an existing rule to update its title or description. You can also delete rules or add new ones per category. At the bottom of the page, categories without rules are shown as suggestions.

Task reminders

House rules are automatically linked to relevant tasks as reminders. When the au pair expands a task on the dashboard, they see the rules that apply to that specific task.

The linking is based on category:

• Childcare tasks show childcare rules
• Cooking tasks show kitchen rules
• Household tasks show room rules
• Education tasks show childcare rules

General rules like work hours or communication agreements are not repeated on every task — the au pair can always find those on the House Rules page.

When editing a task, the family can manually adjust which rules are linked under Rule reminders.

Exporting

Use the download button to export all house rules as PDF or Excel. The PDF includes a signature block for family and au pair — useful as part of your au pair agreement.

See also

• Tasks — Create tasks and link them to rules
• Export & Documents — Export house rules as PDF or Excel
• Settings — Household configuration and limits