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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, My opinion is that maybe 25% of this forum is serious, helpful advice or interesting stories about the nanny-family relationship. The other 75% i read for laughs (of either ridiculous nannies or ridiculous MBs)  :lol: if you don't take things here too seriously it's an entertaining forum.

I do find it odd how a lot of parents here insist that having an ECE-degreed nanny is a must. there are some marginal diminishing returns if you can afford it to be sure, but as someone who was raised by a "village" of extended relatives (many of whom didn't go to college) in another country, I honestly have to say many of the things that make a person a good role model and caretaker for a very young child have less to do with formal education than with attitude and personality.[/quote]

The problem is that we have very small families in the US, and often no extended families around. So an ECE degree at least means the person knows something about childhood development beyond the small number of kids she may have babysat or nannied for before. Otherwise, plenty of Americans become adults without ever taking care of a young child, or really having much interaction with one. They then develop strange expectations about what children are like at particular ages.

That said, I never insisted on a college degree; I just wanted to see a lot of experience around young children.[/quote]

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