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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids were taken care of by two women from abroad who spoke English with heavy accents and many, many grammatical and word choice errors. (DH had a lot of difficulty understanding them.) What they had was love. So much love.  They took care of my babies as if they were their own. I can't even begin to tell you how much lucky I felt knowing these two beautiful souls and having them look after my kids. Years later I'm still friends with them. I wouldn't have traded them for the sweetest talking Harvard Ph.D.
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But you can have a loving nanny who cares well for your children AND speaks fluent, correct English.  I don't think that foreign or less educated nannies are bad, but it's not like you have to choose one or the other.

For OP, our nanny is a college-educated American woman who speaks well.  I think it was helpful in building their vocabulary and literacy at an early age, if that's particularly important to you.  That said, I think things equalize a lot in elementary.

It was useful to have someone with those skills once my oldest child started school.  Our nanny was able to help him with reading books he brought home from school, or with word study, or whatever.  So it didn't all have to sit until we got home from work.  [/quote]

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