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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never smoked or did drugs, and that is an example that I model for my own children.

So yes, in my case, since I wish to model drug-free behavior, I would not hire a nanny who I knew smoked marijuana.  In the same way that many parents might not hire a nanny who smoked or drank (because they want models of healthy behavior for their children.

However, from my years lurking in the DCUM forums, I bet that there are many parents who would probably join the nanny.[/quote]

I feel the same.[/quote]

Uh, children would never know if a nanny smoked pot or drank beer because they would never do it in front of them, so your "model healthy behavior" argument is fatally flawed. You can just say you're biased, it's okay.[/quote]

PP, I prefer to speak my native Spanish whenever the opportunity presents itself in public, at stores, in restaurants, at schools, in church.  You would probably prefer that I speak English when I am around you and your family.  Does that mean that you are biased?[/quote]

Could you try to explain that again? I don't understand the comparison at all.

I am saying that what a nanny does in her private life - not posted on FB, not discussed with the parents, not done in front of the children (nor discussed with them) - is irrelevant. When you look for a nanny who will "model" healthy behavior, you are looking for someone who makes specific choices (drinking only water, not eating fast food, walking rather than driving when possible, whatever) when she is working. The PP cannot argue that she would be right in firing a nanny who did ______ privately because she needs someone who will model healthy behavior because, in fact, the nanny IS modeling healthy behavior.

And you are saying that you are understandably more comfortable using your native language, but that you think an employer would want someone who could speak her language with herself and her children? I guess I agree, at least with the speaking to the parents part. Obviously an MB wants to be able to communicate with her nanny. But so what? How on earth are these two points connected? [/quote]

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