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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing there are so many non-native English speakers popping out of the woodwork as soon as their spelling or punctuation is called into question. Why only spelling and punctuation? Why are you all so handy with idiomatic English and all the other hallmarks of a native speaker?

Things that make you go "hhhhmmmmm".

Seriously!!! Love it.

Two different posters is "so many"? Okay...

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

And another poster quick to throw a random insult based on usage of English language...yes, English isn't my first language. I am doing VERY well for that. And I have an educated opinion about you now, based on the fact that you judge me without knowing me just as you claimed I did in my post...see how that goes? I guess you are entitled to an "uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance" as well, hm?

Keep going. Now you're just entertaining us.

Seriously, too damn funny. Grammar and punctuation are objective facts, not opinion. I don't have an "opinion" on the excessive use of commas and failure to use periods or line breaks. Those are rules that are easily followed. If you want to be taken seriously, learn them.

Again. The first post wasn't me. I don't do weird line breaks. If you haven't noticed the first post and the following posts were two different posters you aren't very observant. Sure my comma usage isn't the best but if you KNOW someone is a foreign speaker and you still judge them for not being able to follow all English comma rules that says a ton about you.

Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time believing there are so many non-native English speakers popping out of the woodwork as soon as their spelling or punctuation is called into question. Why only spelling and punctuation? Why are you all so handy with idiomatic English and all the other hallmarks of a native speaker?

Things that make you go "hhhhmmmmm".

Seriously!!! Love it.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

And another poster quick to throw a random insult based on usage of English language...yes, English isn't my first language. I am doing VERY well for that. And I have an educated opinion about you now, based on the fact that you judge me without knowing me just as you claimed I did in my post...see how that goes? I guess you are entitled to an "uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance" as well, hm?

Keep going. Now you're just entertaining us.

Seriously, too damn funny. Grammar and punctuation are objective facts, not opinion. I don't have an "opinion" on the excessive use of commas and failure to use periods or line breaks. Those are rules that are easily followed. If you want to be taken seriously, learn them.

I think the PP who cannot punctuate is completely entitled to her opinions as dumb as they may be. Who am I to stop her from making a fool of herself!

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

And another poster quick to throw a random insult based on usage of English language...yes, English isn't my first language. I am doing VERY well for that. And I have an educated opinion about you now, based on the fact that you judge me without knowing me just as you claimed I did in my post...see how that goes? I guess you are entitled to an "uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance" as well, hm?

Keep going. Now you're just entertaining us.

If you think I am not enjoying myself you are way off...I wouldn't be here anymore if this wasn't entertaining to me. I am extremely amused by how many people here think they are better than others. And you don't even know who even wrote what you just assume it's all the same person. Too funny.

I have a hard time believing there are so many non-native English speakers popping out of the woodwork as soon as their spelling or punctuation is called into question. Why only spelling and punctuation? Why are you all so handy with idiomatic English and all the other hallmarks of a native speaker?

Things that make you go "hhhhmmmmm".

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

And another poster quick to throw a random insult based on usage of English language...yes, English isn't my first language. I am doing VERY well for that. And I have an educated opinion about you now, based on the fact that you judge me without knowing me just as you claimed I did in my post...see how that goes? I guess you are entitled to an "uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance" as well, hm?

Keep going. Now you're just entertaining us.

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Anonymous wrote:What is your education level? You write like an elementary school child.

Way to go! I assure you my education level is high enough to participate in this thread - after all you insult strangers like a kindergartner. FWIW English isn't my native language...but go ahead, throw some more cleverly hidden snarky insulting remarks and maybe I will take you more seriously...

That was a new PP by the way. Enough people are telling you to learn to punctuate, might want to listen. Perhaps we'd take you more seriously.

I was a new poster as well...the badly punctuated first post wasn't even mine...but go ahead. Just keep them coming...

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

And another poster quick to throw a random insult based on usage of English language...yes, English isn't my first language. I am doing VERY well for that. And I have an educated opinion about you now, based on the fact that you judge me without knowing me just as you claimed I did in my post...see how that goes? I guess you are entitled to an "uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance" as well, hm?

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Anonymous wrote:What is your education level? You write like an elementary school child.

Way to go! I assure you my education level is high enough to participate in this thread - after all you insult strangers like a kindergartner. FWIW English isn't my native language...but go ahead, throw some more cleverly hidden snarky insulting remarks and maybe I will take you more seriously...

That was a new PP by the way. Enough people are telling you to learn to punctuate, might want to listen. Perhaps we'd take you more seriously.

Anonymous wrote:What is your education level? You write like an elementary school child.

Way to go! I assure you my education level is high enough to participate in this thread - after all you insult strangers like a kindergartner. FWIW English isn't my native language...but go ahead, throw some more cleverly hidden snarky insulting remarks and maybe I will take you more seriously...

I'm an attorney and have actually read over the licensing requirements for daycares. Virginia requires that childcare workers be able to communicate in English. I have not visited any centers where the providers could not speak English. True, English may not be the first language for all of them, but some of us aren't scared of the idea of our children being exposed to *gasp* bilingual immigrants!

Not as sure about nannies, but I imagine it would be difficult to hire and sign a contract with someone who is unable to communicate in English.

There may be an under the table market for low wage non-English speaking childcare providers, but I think this speaks more toward the problem of rising childcare costs facing our working and lower middle classes coupled with a lack of family friendly work policies and the need for two incomes for many families to make ends meet. I'm not going to deny this is a real problem, but I hardly think it is indicative of the overall state of childcare in the DC metro area.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if any of the posters so far have taken a step back, read their own posts and went "Oh wow...that person wrote something I thought was horrible - and then all I did was go back and write the same kind of judgmental, nasty, bitchy, name-calling stuff..."

Don't get mad just cause we tell it like it is,
If you really think you're not doing your infant a disservice,
Well keep taking them to daycare,
What will be will be

Interesting that you saw yourself in that post.

What I have ZERO problem with is someone saying they could never personally work and put their child in a daycare because of their own ideas or beliefs or values. No problem. What I have a TON of problem with is that same person saying that I have harmed my kid by doing so. You are absolutely entitled to your beliefs and values. You are not entitled to tell me or anyone else that because we don't share those beliefs or values or have financial constraints you don't face or are a single parent, etc. that we have harmed our children. And no, you are not entitled to an opinion when it involves children other than your own.

Plus, learn now to punctuate properly.

Actually I am entitled to an opinion about just about anything in the entire universe. You have your opinions about this as well. I am also entitled to voice my opinion whenever and where ever I want. Like in this thread. Of course if I say young kids should be with their parents working Moms don't like to hear that...that doesn't mean my opinion is wrong. It just means those Moms have a different opinion.

You are not entitled to have an opinion about me. Period. You don't know me. So if you want to say that you're entitled to an uneducated opinion based purely on ignorance, well, OK, I'll have to give that to you. I don't have an opinion about you other than the fact that you present yourself as entirely ignorant, as evidenced by the way you write and fail to punctuate. That's based on evidence.

Unless I missed it, has anyone said yet which daycare is a good places for babies?