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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Children who are getting speech therapy now at an earlier age is due to earlier intervention, not children having a nanny that was not born in the US.  [/quote]
No one cares where you're born, silly. What is crucial, is how you communicate. A young child learns through imitation.[/quote]

Have you never read this board, sweetcheeks?  You have one poster in particular who likes to believe that speech impediments in children are caused by having a nanny who does not speak English.  And there are others who believe that as well.   If they were to take the time to read the studies and inform themselves, they would know that is not the cause for speech problems.

And you might like to think that people don't care where you are born, but again, you would be wrong, pumpkin dumpling.  But when you have all these nannies and parents who don't learn about childcare and how children learn, they will blame all the problems children have on the foreign nanny.

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No one is blaming the foreign nanny, aside from the usual troll going on about speech therapy. Lets all agree to ignore her, because some other posters have made some legitimate arguments. Hiring a nanny that speaks another language is not the problem, its that the parents hire a nanny who speaks a language they themselves do not speak, and they cannot in turn asses the quality of the language she will be speaking to the child. Just as there are levels in quality of English spoken, there are levels in quality of Spanish spoken, and if you want to expose your child to a second language, you want it to be quality. I think its a problem when 1) nanny can't communicate at a certain level in the same language as the parents (a nanny should do more than follow your instructions, she should be able to help you asses any issues your child is having, monitor and assist his development, and be able to explain her strategies to you) 2) nanny gets flustered when she must speak English, for instance, in some kind of emergency 3) nanny speaks to the child in broken English, and can't/avoids reading to the child because of it. These are all huge scary issues that should be addressed when considering to hire this kind of nanny, that I can't help but observe that they clearly aren't. I'm interacting with these nannies every day, and I can tell the difference between ones that can communicate and educate, and the ones that simply nod yes to everything because they don't really understand. I also speak both languages, and I know the "spanish" your kids are learning and i promise you its not great. I have to wonder what the hell the parents were thinking. [/quote]

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