do you consider nannies with bad English/bad grammar?

[Anonymous]

Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this [/quote
Me and DH no speaky English and I stayed home with DC for 4 years. Nobody can tell that DC no speaky English. Older DC has always been in AAP without speech pathologist's help.

[Anonymous]

Einstein never went to a "privileged preschool or have a perfect nanny"

Every kid just needs a loving and compassionate nanny.
One tip: If the nanny says she cares about making sure the kids eats well then shes the right one. There's nannies who doesn't give a f about the kids nutrition. One case I saw a middle schooler was under the weight and so skinny and parents finnally cared after doctor told them to feed anything the boy wants. Kids need all kinds of foods. When your older you gotta take care of yourself because we're not like when we were younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

????
Racist and dumb.

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb. 

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

[Anonymous]

I met speech pathologists before and never said anything about bad English was a negative thing. And she said is fine if the child learns another language. Actually is very positive for the child. She even encouraged us to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb. 

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

My kid has had a Spanish speaking nanny his whole life Her English isn't native quality--but he's gotten nothing but 99% scores on his MAP tests, so by definition he's outscoring 99 out of 100 kids around him on reading and math. OP sounds dumb.

[Anonymous]

Kids needs just love. They can be robots later for society

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb. 

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

My kid has had a Spanish speaking nanny his whole life Her English isn't native quality--but he's gotten nothing but 99% scores on his MAP tests, so by definition he's outscoring 99 out of 100 kids around him on reading and math. OP sounds dumb.

Who taught him English? When did he speak comfortably?

[Anonymous]

I want to correct some incorrect assumptions that children who speak/ learn two languages at home have delayed speech or other speech related delays. This is absolutely not true. In our home one parent speaks to our children exclusively English and the other parent speaks exclusively Spanish. None of our children had any speech delays and are fluent in two languages.

Mom of 3, pediatrician, native Spanish speaker

[Anonymous]

If they can speak fluently to a child in another language, then that's great. Better than a nanny that has perfect english.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb. 

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

+1 I looked for a Spanish speaking nanny because I wanted my kids to be bilingual. My kids have no discernible Spanish accent, and are each at least 2 years above grade level in reading and math. Plus they both speak Spanish pretty well. Hearing two languages has a lot of positive benefits for children's cognitive development, and a lot of people are just looking for excuses to complain about foreigners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're currently looking for a full-time nanny to replace our (amazing) part-time nanny since I'm going back to work full-time. I don't know if it's rational, but I've been automatically rejecting 95% of profiles I see or applications I get because the person writes badly/has terrible grammar/obviously has poor English skills. I used to teach at a very expensive private school in NYC and noticed that many of my students did not have as high level vocabularies as I would have expected - another teacher told me this was because many of them were essentially raised by nannies originally from another country who didn't speak English very well. I know that many foreign-born nannies are good down to their bones, love their charges, are capable, and do all kinds of fun and enriching activities with them. But ... I've read so many studies on the impact of surrounding children with high-level vocabulary and conversation. My children are in preschool, so it seems maybe more important than if I had an infant. I know I could ask a nanny to speak Spanish to my children, but for a few reasons that doesn't work well for our situation right now. Do you think my instincts (to insist on a nanny with great English) are reasonable, or am I missing out on better candidates? Is English ability important to you?

Yes, our Spanish speaking nanny was like a second parent. She spoke VERY broken English but got better with time. She was kind, patient, loving, responsible. We loved her. Our kids loved her. I wouldn't have traded her for anything. All of our kids are smart (in honors classes) and the early "deprivation" of a strong English speaker was not an issue.

And for those of you wondering, she was here on a green card and is now a US citizen (kids are older now).

[Anonymous]

DP. We just interviewed a bi-lingual nanny who seems great. Our previous nanny only speaks English, and our older child is 4 and in preschool three days a week. It seems like it might be too late for her to pick Spanish up from the nanny since she'll be in kindergarten next year, right? Does it work if the nanny speaks Spanish to the younger sibling (who doesn't talk yet), but the older sibling can't understand? Just trying to think it through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Former teacher and current speech pathologist. I would agree with you OP. Many children, whose nannies or au pairs are limited in English often mimic the speech patterns that they hear. For example, I have children who I am currently trying to deprogram Carribbean accents and incorrect grammatical speech patterns. Although people on this forum want to be PC, it pays to be realistic.

If you get a nanny with poor grammar, you’ll end up paying for it in some form or another. However, it means more business for me should you choose to ignore this

Hahahaha
Racist and dumb. 

I know kids who grew up with nice nannies who only spoke Spanish and they turned out just fine. They speak English perfectly well and never needed extra tutoring.

My kid has had a Spanish speaking nanny his whole life Her English isn't native quality--but he's gotten nothing but 99% scores on his MAP tests, so by definition he's outscoring 99 out of 100 kids around him on reading and math. OP sounds dumb.

Who taught him English? When did he speak comfortably?

I spoke to him in English and my nanny spoke to him in Spanish, just like many families with Spanish speaking nannies. He spoke at 8 months (both languages a bit mixed together). I suppose the anti-foreign language posters on this thread would say he would have spoke at 6 months had he not been so unlucky to have a Spanish speaking nanny.