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Anonymous wrote:I have 4 children and have had 2 nannies and a temporary nanny share and I don't know anyone who pays $20 hr. $12-15 for one child is far more common and $15-18 for 2 kids. The only people I know who pay $20 is in a nanny share and each family pays $10.

Babies just need love and someone to care for them and feed them and change them. No college degree or bi-lingual experience is necessary.

Ever wonder why the recent explosion of special needs children? Hint: a child's environment matters. A lot. Regardless of who's providing the environment, it should always be the best possible environment.

NOT saying EVERY special needs child is the result of a poor early environment. After all, the genes of two parents must be taken into consideration, as well as the nine months in utero. It all matters.

Yikes, apparently you don't know very much about special needs children. There is no recent explosion of special needs children. There have been changes in diagnostic criteria. Ten minutes reviewing the literature will educate you on this known fact in the field. A child's environment matters in addressing any child's needs, yes, but does not create special needs (the need for therapeutic interventions, IEPs or 504s). Yes, there are genetic conditions that result in special needs, but these are the minority because there are no known genetic causes for the most common of special needs (ADHD, ASD, and the like.)

Also, there is no academic study in the last 50 years that concludes that bilingualism results in speech delays, not does bilingual education cure speech delays. Bilingual education is valuable to young children in many ways, but not in the arena of speech delays.

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Anonymous wrote:I have 4 children and have had 2 nannies and a temporary nanny share and I don't know anyone who pays $20 hr. $12-15 for one child is far more common and $15-18 for 2 kids. The only people I know who pay $20 is in a nanny share and each family pays $10.

Babies just need love and someone to care for them and feed them and change them. No college degree or bi-lingual experience is necessary.

Ever wonder why the recent explosion of special needs children? Hint: a child's environment matters. A lot. Regardless of who's providing the environment, it should always be the best possible environment.

NOT saying EVERY special needs child is the result of a poor early environment. After all, the genes of two parents must be taken into consideration, as well as the nine months in utero. It all matters.

Yikes, apparently you don't know very much about special needs children. There is no recent explosion of special needs children. There have been changes in diagnostic criteria. Ten minutes reviewing the literature will educate you on this known fact in the field. A child's environment matters in addressing any child's needs, yes, but does not create special needs (the need for therapeutic interventions, IEPs or 504s). Yes, there are genetic conditions that result in special needs, but these are the minority because there are no known genetic causes for the most common of special needs (ADHD, ASD, and the like.)

Also, there is no academic study in the last 50 years that concludes that bilingualism results in speech delays, not does bilingual education cure speech delays. Bilingual education is valuable to young children in many ways, but not in the arena of speech delays.

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Anonymous wrote:I have 4 children and have had 2 nannies and a temporary nanny share and I don't know anyone who pays $20 hr. $12-15 for one child is far more common and $15-18 for 2 kids. The only people I know who pay $20 is in a nanny share and each family pays $10.

Babies just need love and someone to care for them and feed them and change them. No college degree or bi-lingual experience is necessary.

Ever wonder why the recent explosion of special needs children? Hint: a child's environment matters. A lot. Regardless of who's providing the environment, it should always be the best possible environment.

NOT saying EVERY special needs child is the result of a poor early environment. After all, the genes of two parents must be taken into consideration, as well as the nine months in utero. It all matters.

Anonymous wrote:I have 4 children and have had 2 nannies and a temporary nanny share and I don't know anyone who pays $20 hr. $12-15 for one child is far more common and $15-18 for 2 kids. The only people I know who pay $20 is in a nanny share and each family pays $10.

Babies just need love and someone to care for them and feed them and change them. No college degree or bi-lingual experience is necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever had a newborn before? When my daughters were newborns I sometimes spent up to an hour and a half trying to get them calmed down enough to sleep. The work was non-stop. When the baby slept, I did laundry, pumped, ate, cleaned, prepped food for later, etc. It's a LOT of work.

My 2.5 yr old can play in her room for ten minutes while I shower. She takes a solid two hour nap each day after lunch. Very different in terms of physical involvement.

Thank you for your reply. nanny only job is to care for the baby no house work. $20 an hour full time is a lot.?

Not necessarily - if she's bilingual and educated and has years of solid experience then $20 an hour seems reasonable. And it'd be silly to not have the nanny doing baby laundry.

Why would you care if she's bilingual if her charge is an infant? Seriously, taking care of an infant doesn't require extensive education. The usual rate in DC of $16-18/hr is appropriate for the job.

Children pick up language through hearing it, so having a bilingual nanny from 2-3 months til 3 or 5 sets that child up with a better chance to pick up languages more easily.

Language development is much more complicated than that. Many, many children these days are speech delayed. SOME of this is due to environment.

Exposure to multiple languages does not cause speech delays.

Learning multiple languages is proven to support language development, brain capacity, and flexible thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever had a newborn before? When my daughters were newborns I sometimes spent up to an hour and a half trying to get them calmed down enough to sleep. The work was non-stop. When the baby slept, I did laundry, pumped, ate, cleaned, prepped food for later, etc. It's a LOT of work.

My 2.5 yr old can play in her room for ten minutes while I shower. She takes a solid two hour nap each day after lunch. Very different in terms of physical involvement.

Thank you for your reply. nanny only job is to care for the baby no house work. $20 an hour full time is a lot.?

Not necessarily - if she's bilingual and educated and has years of solid experience then $20 an hour seems reasonable. And it'd be silly to not have the nanny doing baby laundry.

Why would you care if she's bilingual if her charge is an infant? Seriously, taking care of an infant doesn't require extensive education. The usual rate in DC of $16-18/hr is appropriate for the job.

Children pick up language through hearing it, so having a bilingual nanny from 2-3 months til 3 or 5 sets that child up with a better chance to pick up languages more easily.

Language development is much more complicated than that. Many, many children these days are speech delayed. SOME of this is due to environment.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever had a newborn before? When my daughters were newborns I sometimes spent up to an hour and a half trying to get them calmed down enough to sleep. The work was non-stop. When the baby slept, I did laundry, pumped, ate, cleaned, prepped food for later, etc. It's a LOT of work.

My 2.5 yr old can play in her room for ten minutes while I shower. She takes a solid two hour nap each day after lunch. Very different in terms of physical involvement.

Thank you for your reply. nanny only job is to care for the baby no house work. $20 an hour full time is a lot.?

Not necessarily - if she's bilingual and educated and has years of solid experience then $20 an hour seems reasonable. And it'd be silly to not have the nanny doing baby laundry.

Why would you care if she's bilingual if her charge is an infant? Seriously, taking care of an infant doesn't require extensive education. The usual rate in DC of $16-18/hr is appropriate for the job.

Children pick up language through hearing it, so having a bilingual nanny from 2-3 months til 3 or 5 sets that child up with a better chance to pick up languages more easily.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever had a newborn before? When my daughters were newborns I sometimes spent up to an hour and a half trying to get them calmed down enough to sleep. The work was non-stop. When the baby slept, I did laundry, pumped, ate, cleaned, prepped food for later, etc. It's a LOT of work.

My 2.5 yr old can play in her room for ten minutes while I shower. She takes a solid two hour nap each day after lunch. Very different in terms of physical involvement.

Thank you for your reply. nanny only job is to care for the baby no house work. $20 an hour full time is a lot.?

Not necessarily - if she's bilingual and educated and has years of solid experience then $20 an hour seems reasonable. And it'd be silly to not have the nanny doing baby laundry.

Why would you care if she's bilingual if her charge is an infant? Seriously, taking care of an infant doesn't require extensive education. The usual rate in DC of $16-18/hr is appropriate for the job.