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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Believe it or not, my wife, an African-American, has never been ([b]openly[/b]) mistaken for the nanny of our 8 year old who looks white, has green eyes and brown hair with blond highlights. We live in DC. Clearly there is something in the way she carries herself and interacts with dd that communicates a parent-child relationship. I'm sure there's some study that has been done on how parents vs caregivers interact with relation to subtle differences in eye contact, touch, tone of voice, etc. [/quote]

My dear PP, don't get too smug. People assume many things without telling you. You're just not subtle enough to pick up on them, or you've never been in a situation where you could gauge how people saw that relationship.

I know I was mistaken for the nanny, even though no one actually told me this to my face, but I could tell easily by the attitude.

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Smug? You're the one being smug presuming you know what my experiences or my wife's experiences are. Someone asked about being mistaken for the nanny. I answered it as best I could and even allowed that others may have assumed but never said so outright.

Save your condescending tone for...no one. [/quote]

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