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[quote=Anonymous]We found her through another neighborhood family. They were really involved in the hiring process, which my husband and I found odd. At the same time, they were moving out of state and we thought they were just helping her as a friend and "nice people". The other family was really similar to our family with regard to nanny requirements and spent a lot of time on the phone answering my questions about the nanny. They really went above and beyond.

The nanny had a great interview and it is apparent from her references, an extremely hard worker, loving caregiver and fantastic employee.

Reading is really important to me. While I feel compassion for someone who might not had the same education and opportunities, we are paying her a really strong salary given her educational background.

I like to think my husband and I are good people, but we also have an expectation that our nanny could read and write English. Now I am doubting this and me overlooking this while on maternity leave, balancing new motherhood and interviewing candidates. She was the only candidate I really felt had a passion for children and the families she worked for and really spoke highly of her experiences working for the family and the children she cared for as a nanny. Now I am realizing that I might have overlooked literacy and just taken it as a given. Ah!

We had other nanny candidates who were clearly illiterate as they spoke through a teenage child or relative. Because of emergency situations, it is really important to me that the nanny watching my child can read and write basic English and has a love of reading.

I'm almost in tears thinking about this. I don't know what to do. I never thought that this would be the issue I'm confronting. Or that it should have been something I'd forget to ask.[/quote]

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