Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 16:07     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I am pp my baby is Blond not blind!


Thank goodness! Lol
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 16:06     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
I am pp my baby is Blond not blind!
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 16:05     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
2 times. NeighbOr came to introduce herself and when I answered the door asked if I lived there. She assumed I was a nanny. I look Latina though I am not. Second time with baby number Two who somehow turned out to be blind and fair. When I corrected the person and told her hat I am his mom she said " why is he so fair?"
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 16:02     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Yep. I look latina and I'm youngish (29). My son is very fair skinned and blonde. I was actually blonde too when I was a baby but strangers don't know that!
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 16:00     Subject: Re:Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I'm a younger mom and have two mixed kids (I'm white). I've never been mistaken for the nanny.


Do you live close-in or far out?
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:58     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Yep! Same situation. "Younger" mom, mixed kid. I chose to believe it was definitely because I looked too young to have a baby and not that my baby didn't look related to me. (I'm 29 btw, so really only "young" by crazy DC standards.)


Op here. Same age! I agree it's not young at all compared to most of the country.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:58     Subject: Re:Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Granny, yes; nanny, no.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:58     Subject: Re:Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
I'm a younger mom and have two mixed kids (I'm white). I've never been mistaken for the nanny.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:57     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
I do all the time. I think it is a combo of me looking young (and starting young) to have teens and lots of au pairs around. Nothing to do with skin color.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:55     Subject: Re:Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Every day of my life. I have darker skin than my children so its assumed often.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:55     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Yes. I don't know if I was doing a better or worse job than they would expect. 2/3 times it was a nanny assuming I wasn't the mother.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:55     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
Yep! Same situation. "Younger" mom, mixed kid. I chose to believe it was definitely because I looked too young to have a baby and not that my baby didn't look related to me. (I'm 29 btw, so really only "young" by crazy DC standards.)
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:55     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
It was assumed I was babysitting often. I'm half latino and in the summer I get pretty dark, and I was a teen mom.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:55     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
My nanny gets complimented on how cute her (my) baby is whenever they go out. Not the same, I know.
Anonymous
Post 06/30/2015 15:53     Subject: Have you ever been mistaken as your child's nanny?
I have and it was so strange. I guess it had to do wih looking like a youngish parent for this area and the fact that my kid is mixed and I'm not. Has his happened to you?