Anonymous wrote:I'm sure some families truly want their child to learn Spanish but every time I see a ad like that or even meet a Hispanic nanny I think the parents only hired her because she is illegal. I am an MB with an American nanny.

we hired her because she is a great childcare provider and works v well with us.
plus she doesn't go through our bills, computer desk and nosing around the house reading everything.
finally, she isn't on dcum posting BS 24/7 in spanish.

Anonymous wrote:I answered an ad on Care.com for a Spanish speaking nanny position. My parents are from Argentina and I grew up speaking Spanish only at home, I double majored in Spanish and ECD and spent my junior year abroad in Madrid, and am clearly fluent in Spanish. However, within ten seconds of the phone interview, the MB noted that I didn't have an accent and said she was interested in hiring only a native Spanish speaker. I immediately gave her my above credentials and she still said she wanted a nanny born in a Spanish speaking country.

Interesting, huh?

that's a lot of speculation.
did you also tell her how much you love dcum?

I am a nanny my native language is Espanol. The families that I have worked for always ask me to talk Espanol to the kids. I have been talking Espanol to them but, the kids did not became fluent in Spanish. When they ask me why the kids do not Speak Spanish I get so mad and answer that I am not a Spanish teacher I am a nanny . I do not went to college to became a Spanish teacher. I don't teach Spanish I just talk to them in Spanish. For those kids to learn proper Spanish they need a person Who teach them grammar, pronunciation, intonation, standard Spanish Etc. I am a Nanny not Spanish teacher.

I'm sorry, but I just smell bullsh*t ! There are American tutors who can teach Spanish. Why haven't they looked into a tutor ? Oh, that's right, they want a 2in1. I also think most families hire immigrant nannies because they can pay them a lot less. I'm not saying they don't exist, but I have yet to meet an immigrant (Hispanic or African) nanny that spoke decent English. They always sound "fresh off the boat." Just my opinion from MY experiences. I agree with the OP 100%.

Anonymous wrote:Not necessarily.

We hired a nanny who was born in South American but raised here (full citizen) who said she was fully bilingual and would spanish with our kids.

She doesn't. She defaults to english - which I understand, but is not what we wanted to hire. If I had to hire again I would hire someone whose default primary language is spanish (which was the case with the nanny who first with our family for three years.)

Both nannies were citizens, paid legally, and paid market rates for our area. But their approach to speaking Spanish with our kids was vastly different.

+1

We have been in almost exactly in the same situation. We hired a nanny (full citizen) who was born in the Dominican Republic who promised to speak Spanish with our kids and she just couldn't. She moved to Ohio when she was a kid and aside from speaking Spanish with her mother she always defaulted to English. She could help my son with his Spanish homework and sing Spanish lullabies to the baby, but she still could never bring herself to converse with the kids in Spanish.

Our next nanny was from Columbia and moved over here in her 20s. She is also a full citizen, but English is clearly her second language and she always defaulted to Spanish with the kids, as we had requested.

When I was interviewing the second time around, I recognized that I needed to find someone who defaulted to Spanish because it's easy to say that you can teach a child Spanish because you are fluent, but it clearly won't happen easily if the nanny defaults to English.

We're not all looking to cheat undocumented workers - some of us have just had legitimately bad experiences with previous (documented) nannies.

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure some families truly want their child to learn Spanish but every time I see a ad like that or even meet a Hispanic nanny I think the parents only hired her because she is illegal. I am an MB with an American nanny.

Well, that's just incredibly racist.

Jeez - you all are nasty and miserable. Screaming about capitalization, assuming the absolute worst scenario about someone else based on an ad, assuming anyone who is a hispanic nanny must be illegal, etc...

You're all vile, except perhaps 10:27 whom you excoriated.

Undocumented workers are at all kinds of risk because their employers know they're too scared to report wrongdoing.

I'm sure some families truly want their child to learn Spanish but every time I see a ad like that or even meet a Hispanic nanny I think the parents only hired her because she is illegal. I am an MB with an American nanny.

Anonymous wrote:Not necessarily.

We hired a nanny who was born in South American but raised here (full citizen) who said she was fully bilingual and would spanish with our kids.

She doesn't. She defaults to english - which I understand, but is not what we wanted to hire. If I had to hire again I would hire someone whose default primary language is spanish (which was the case with the nanny who first with our family for three years.)

Both nannies were citizens, paid legally, and paid market rates for our area. But their approach to speaking Spanish with our kids was vastly different.

I'm in France and am a trilingual nanny with French (mother tongue), English and German. I currently work in an English speaking daycare each morning speaking English, look after German children two days a week who I speak English to and English children who I speak French to three days a week.

I do not mix up my languages - only very occasionally when I'm deep in thought or when I'm caught off guard. I think the nanny you've hired is not very professional, or you haven't made it clear enough to her how important Spanish was to you.

So I have to agree with OP, sounds like the MB wanted someone she could possibly take advantage of.

Anonymous wrote:I also agree w/the OP that this family was looking to hire an illegal person so they could possibly pay that person less than a living wage.

For obvious reasons they couldn't put this on their Help Wanted ad.

Slime bags.

+1 You see ads like this all the time. OP's first language was Spanish. That slime-ball mother wanted an undocumented worker she could pay $5 an hour. You see it all the time in Los Angeles.

I also agree w/the OP that this family was looking to hire an illegal person so they could possibly pay that person less than a living wage.

For obvious reasons they couldn't put this on their Help Wanted ad.

Slime bags.

Anonymous wrote:Not necessarily.

We hired a nanny who was born in South American but raised here (full citizen) who said she was fully bilingual and would spanish with our kids.

She doesn't. She defaults to english - which I understand, but is not what we wanted to hire. If I had to hire again I would hire someone whose default primary language is spanish (which was the case with the nanny who first with our family for three years.)

Both nannies were citizens, paid legally, and paid market rates for our area. But their approach to speaking Spanish with our kids was vastly different.

SPANISH IS A PROPER NOUN. It IS not a verb. Stop murdering the English language. People do not English, French, Spanish or any other language they SPEAK the language.

Furthermore, I agree with OP that they wanted an illegal.

Not necessarily.

We hired a nanny who was born in South American but raised here (full citizen) who said she was fully bilingual and would spanish with our kids.

She doesn't. She defaults to english - which I understand, but is not what we wanted to hire. If I had to hire again I would hire someone whose default primary language is spanish (which was the case with the nanny who first with our family for three years.)

Both nannies were citizens, paid legally, and paid market rates for our area. But their approach to speaking Spanish with our kids was vastly different.

I answered an ad on Care.com for a Spanish speaking nanny position. My parents are from Argentina and I grew up speaking Spanish only at home, I double majored in Spanish and ECD and spent my junior year abroad in Madrid, and am clearly fluent in Spanish. However, within ten seconds of the phone interview, the MB noted that I didn't have an accent and said she was interested in hiring only a native Spanish speaker. I immediately gave her my above credentials and she still said she wanted a nanny born in a Spanish speaking country.

Interesting, huh?