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[quote=Anonymous]I work in early childhood. I think a play based curriculum is fine but for me there are two red flags as an experienced mom of two:
-bringing own food
-no English

My husband is trilingual and we value bilingual education. But with our nanny share for DS #1 we found it to be a "red flag" if no English is spoken. That is typically code for the person being illiterate in English or the other language (such as Spanish). We were floored by how many educated parents in the area were okay with illiterate nannies.

Our nanny was amazing but there were many issues with illiteracy. One, we can't talk on the phone at work and rely on texting. Nanny was fluent in English but not comfortable with her English writing skills. She would call back rather then text.

As babies got older and we wanted written reports more than just pooped, bottles, sleep, we found it to be an issue.

While nanny was great with infants, toddlers and older infants she relied heavily on neighborhood fee based classes such as at the rec center, music classes, art classes, kids' musicians that are $5 or so per kids on Fridays, open play at the rec center that had a drop in fee.

Nanny also wasn't computer literate. Although had 20 plus experience years in our neighborhood and had a great schedule, the scheduling was up to us to register for kids and remember when to register. This was time consuming and we had hired a nanny who we thought would do this.

We had a nanny who made all meals for our son. I found this not to be the case when interviewing but it is one less thing to do.

My son has asthma and allergies. someone who is not literate and doesn't speak English fluently, that could be a life or death situation.

We now go to a center based place where we use an app. I absolutely love the app alerts and emails from the teachers. They send us detailed reports about the day's activities and pictures of DS at school. The teachers are diverse and not just one background (white, black, Asian, Latina, men, women, LGBT, Muslim, new Americans, young and out of college or experienced 30 years plus). We don't have to deal with taxes (you might have to do that with in home care) or having an employee. The food is provided and is very healthy and ethnic/organic, not "American" junk food like chicken nuggets. There is supplementary classes like Spanish, karate, yoga, music and art included in the fees. We have a director and assistant director who are communicative and a school community. My kids 3 months, 3 and 4 can all attend versus a preschool and then infant day care. [/quote]

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