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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm sorry, OP.  The truth is that other parents are willing to overlook this deficit.  You will find that your standards are not necessarily shared by other parents over the coming years.  I've had a parent, with a PhD in Education no less, shrug at having her elementary-aged SN child unbuckled in the front seat since all the other carpool kids were buckled in.  I've also seen parents walk away from a pool with a non-water safe child.  Anyway, if you require a nanny that is literate (for good reason!), you must pass on this one.  There are too many situations that require literacy.  Don't lose heart, you will find the right person.  [/quote]

I also know a mother with a PhD who also doesn't care if her children are properly buckled or in the front seat, one of which being SN. I thought about reporting them, makes me so angry!  [/quote]

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