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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hired a primarily Spanish speaking nanny to teach my kid Spanish.  He learns English from me and his father.[/quote]
If you and your husband are your child's primary caregivers, that's great.[/quote]

19:35 here -- we are not.  We both work 40+ hour a week jobs.  And guess what -- our 20 month old kid is leaps and bounds ahead of his peers in his English vocabulary and he's pretty decent with Spanish too.  I don't think his English has been harmed by this arrangement one bit.[/quote]
If what you say is true, congratulations. Most of these arrangements don't work out so well from what I see. Hence, the current spike in speech therapy for three year olds.[/quote]

I hate to burst your bubble, but your theory is wrong.  Over the years as a preschool teacher, I have had many children in my classes who have had caregivers that spoke little English, or who spoke English with a very thick accent and none of those children required speech therapy.

And, by the way, as someone who grew up in an English speaking household with only other white English speakers around me, I was in and out of speech therapy several different times.[/quote]

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