Anonymous wrote:Growing up in Los Angeles, if having a Spanish speaking nanny made you bilingual than all of my friends would be bilingual -- which simply isn't the case. The children learn a few words and phrases and forget them by the time high school rolls around.


PP is correct. When people post an ad for a Spanish speaking nanny they mean cheap and illegal.

+1,000,000. No one can post that they are looking for a cheap nanny to work off the books.

Growing up in Los Angeles, if having a Spanish speaking nanny made you bilingual than all of my friends would be bilingual -- which simply isn't the case. The children learn a few words and phrases and forget them by the time high school rolls around.


PP is correct. When people post an ad for a Spanish speaking nanny they mean cheap and illegal.

Anonymous wrote:Because they are generally unable to work in this country legally and will accept a substandard wage. The desire for a Spanish speaking nanny is a code for inexpensive and under the table.

Absolutely. No one is expecting their kid to become bilingual. At best they pick up the meaning of a few words by the time they are 5 but can't even use them in a sentence in Spanish. Plus would that even be worth the hassle of having a nanny you can't communicate with yourself? They just want to pay as little as possible for a warm body.

Anonymous wrote:Because they are generally unable to work in this country legally and will accept a substandard wage. The desire for a Spanish speaking nanny is a code for inexpensive and under the table.

Agree.

Because they are generally unable to work in this country legally and will accept a substandard wage. The desire for a Spanish speaking nanny is a code for inexpensive and under the table.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wondering why more and more family are looking for Latino nannies/ spanish speaking requirements.

Because they don't waste their time on DCUM!

Sorry, Sweets - Latina nanny here and I'm on DCUM all the time. If my fellow Latina nannies could write and read in English, they would be on here, too.

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering why more and more family are looking for Latino nannies/ spanish speaking requirements.

Because they don't waste their time on DCUM!

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering why more and more family are looking for Latino nannies/ spanish speaking requirements.

I don't see that at all, and just finished interviewing a ton of nannies. Don't see that in my neighborhood at all either. Mix of filipino, caribbean, hispanic nannies and au pairs.

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering why more and more family are looking for Latino nannies/ spanish speaking requirements.

Because we are cheaper and will work off the books. Make no mistake about that.

Anonymous wrote:they're cheaper and from a culture where there are clearly delineated lines of upper and lower classes so they're less likely to get sassy or push back against being treated like the help.

No matter how much people try to be PC about and say "not all of them!" this is the correct answer. You can hire an immigrant, even a legal one, and pay a substandard wage, demand much more from them regarding job performance, and treat them like the help and never have to worry about them up and quitting or being passive aggressive about it.

We lived in South America until ds was 1.5 and he picked up quite a bit of Spanish. Neither DH nor I are fluent so we wanted someone who could speak to him in Spanish tO encourage that language development. His nanny is American though but grew up in a bilingual house So I'm not sure if that fits into what you're talking about

Anonymous wrote:they're cheaper and from a culture where there are clearly delineated lines of upper and lower classes so they're less likely to get sassy or push back against being treated like the help.

Not in my experience. We had a south american nanny we let go because of her attitude and sense of entitlement.

You can't generalize. Some are great and some aren't - regardless of cultural background.

they're cheaper and from a culture where there are clearly delineated lines of upper and lower classes so they're less likely to get sassy or push back against being treated like the help.

Our kids had a spanish speaking nanny for several years and it was great - they learned to speak some spanish and also loved the foods she made for them (that were of her culture, not ours.)

When we had to replace her we looked for someone bilingual to maintain their language skills.

Just wondering why more and more family are looking for Latino nannies/ spanish speaking requirements.