Spanish (only) speaking nanny - meet up groups?

[Anonymous]

My nanny came with us from Colombia and speaks very little English, in order for her to form a little bit of her own life and autonomy here in Arlington/Northern VA and to have friends and outlets outside of time with us (she lives with us and has no family or friends here), I would like to find some venues she could meet other Spanish-speaking nannies. Any suggestions? I already trolled meetup.com and didn't find anything good. Perhaps a more natural venue to meet other nannies in her situation like a park or community area with group play dates for the kids with other nannies (preferably spanish speaking) in attendance?

Any ideas are appreciated. I think it will really effect her happiness here with us if she can build some friendships or find a bit of a community to share with and have her own things going on.

[Anonymous]

Every park and playground I go to has spanish speaking nannies.

[Anonymous]

I have never been anywhere with my charge where there wasn't a gaggle of Spanish speaking nannies chattering away while their charges ran around unsupervised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nanny came with us from Colombia and speaks very little English, in order for her to form a little bit of her own life and autonomy here in Arlington/Northern VA and to have friends and outlets outside of time with us (she lives with us and has no family or friends here), I would like to find some venues she could meet other Spanish-speaking nannies. Any suggestions? I already trolled meetup.com and didn't find anything good. Perhaps a more natural venue to meet other nannies in her situation like a park or community area with group play dates for the kids with other nannies (preferably spanish speaking) in attendance?

Any ideas are appreciated. I think it will really effect her happiness here with us if she can build some friendships or find a bit of a community to share with and have her own things going on.

Are you US citizens?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never been anywhere with my charge where there wasn't a gaggle of Spanish speaking nannies chattering away while their charges ran around unsupervised.

But at least those kids are "learning Spanish" lol and the parents are saving money over daycare! =D

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have never been anywhere with my charge where there wasn't a gaggle of Spanish speaking nannies chattering away while their charges ran around unsupervised.

But at least those kids are "learning Spanish" lol and the parents are saving money over daycare! =D

Right, because anyone who is a native spanish speaker is automatically cheap and uncaring.

Your racist attitudes are as bad as any parent who takes advantage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My nanny came with us from Colombia and speaks very little English, in order for her to form a little bit of her own life and autonomy here in Arlington/Northern VA and to have friends and outlets outside of time with us (she lives with us and has no family or friends here), I would like to find some venues she could meet other Spanish-speaking nannies. Any suggestions? I already trolled meetup.com and didn't find anything good. Perhaps a more natural venue to meet other nannies in her situation like a park or community area with group play dates for the kids with other nannies (preferably spanish speaking) in attendance?

Any ideas are appreciated. I think it will really effect her happiness here with us if she can build some friendships or find a bit of a community to share with and have her own things going on.

Are you US citizens?

We are US citizens but she is not... is that relevant?

[Anonymous]

8:38, yes it is relevant because, legally, American citizens are not allowed to bring i, foreign domestic employees.

[Anonymous]

which law are you talking about?
you can hire whoever you like and meet your expectations.
you can find spanish speaking people at any
church. There are services for spanish speaking people and there are also activities and English classes

[Anonymous]

If a US citizen living abroad has domestic employee who is a citizen of that country, they cannot bring that person back to to this country with them.

[Anonymous]

Are you serious? You cannot swing a dead cat without hitting a group of four or five Spanish-speaking nannies in the library, park or playground. Your nanny will have no problem finding other nannies to befriend.

[Anonymous]

Send her to story time at any library. I recently went to one for the first time and it was literally 40+ spanish nannies just letting their charges run around and cry while they were either on their phone or chatting with their neighbors.

It made me really sad for all those kids and of course the lady running story time who had no authority and didn't speak spanish anyways so it would be a moot attempt to quite those nannies down, but still, your nanny might be able to find a friend. (Just make sure you never let her take YOUR kids to story time at the library unless you want them to cry for an hour and eat things off the floor.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Send her to story time at any library. I recently went to one for the first time and it was literally 40+ spanish nannies just letting their charges run around and cry while they were either on their phone or chatting with their neighbors.

It made me really sad for all those kids and of course the lady running story time who had no authority and didn't speak spanish anyways so it would be a moot attempt to quite those nannies down, but still, your nanny might be able to find a friend. (Just make sure you never let her take YOUR kids to story time at the library unless you want them to cry for an hour and eat things off the floor.)

The US is an English speaking country. Learn the language or leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Send her to story time at any library. I recently went to one for the first time and it was literally 40+ spanish nannies just letting their charges run around and cry while they were either on their phone or chatting with their neighbors.

It made me really sad for all those kids and of course the lady running story time who had no authority and didn't speak spanish anyways so it would be a moot attempt to quite those nannies down, but still, your nanny might be able to find a friend. (Just make sure you never let her take YOUR kids to story time at the library unless you want them to cry for an hour and eat things off the floor.)

The US is an English speaking country. Learn the language or leave.

The thing that surprised me the most about story time was I thought the Spanish had this amazing work ethic, but come to find out they are super lazy irresponsible brats with no respect for anyone.

[Anonymous]

Op--- please ignore some of these outrageous responses. My nanny speaks Spanish and I love that my children are learning form her. I have asked her only to speak Spanish to them at home and now my daughter is 4 and completely fluent. It's amazing! At the Columbia pike library in Arlington they have Spanish story time and music. It is only for babies under 2. My youngest loves it! And, most of the nannies that bring kids are Spanish speaking and the woman who does the class is obviously Spanish speaking. The story times are every Wednesday at 10:30 and also Friday's I believe.

In addition, you can join project family in Arlington. They have a preschool type program during the week and it's done in both Spanish and English. The teachers are bilingual and judge the language based on the kids in the room. Anyways, I highly suggest you look into that program. Nannies are welcome to bring kids on Fridays only. I am sure she could people at the community center.

Good luck! You are giving you child a gift of being bilingual.