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more about #thenannydiaries marshmallory: Kathie Lee is usually the one making everyone uncomfortable...I guess her lack of tact is rubbing off on Hoda. more » Rare Affinity: As I am still asked about when I am having the baby and when I had the baby, despite being like Elizabeth Tudor and of "barren stock", I sympathise wi... more » TakeADeepBreath: This show is just one big WTF. more » Red-headed bookworm: Ugh, this just infuriates me. I hate that smart people from other countries come here to escape some kind of opporession, and then find their degrees ... more » UrbanAchiever: Aside from the obvious labor and class issues it brings up, what this article demonstrates to me is that people whose lives revolve around proving the... more » mariamariamaria: Wanting a spanish speaking nanny wouldn't be just a trendy thing to do in California or Texas. Being able to speak Spanish would be very useful in th... more » HappyLand: Wait...why aren't people raising their own goddamn offspring? This is bizarre. more » bluebears: I don't understand why this post touched a huge nerve. I think its a fairly straight forward post about how a group of wealthy women (and their husba... more » kavitabk: I think a fundamental issue that makes many of us uncomfortable (including me) can be analyzed from a feminist lens: Who does "women's work?" Who ta... more » Little Green Frog (Wise Latina): I've told this story before: this summer I went to pick up my kids at tennis camp. I'm Mexican, married to a white guy, and my kids don't look like "t... more » Penny: I don't begrudge anyone for having a nanny, or an au pair, or a fleet of babysitters, whatever. I do find it interesting, however, that all of the pe... more » RainbowBrite: Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people. Like, don't people have any sort of conscience???? Those assholes who don't pay their nannies would nev... more » krispitina: What? Whose parents let them nanny other kids at night at 11? At 11, my parents wouldn't have left me watching my own brother late at night, much less... more » Silsi: This situation reminds me of the hiring policies of the Pullman Porters. Porters were men hired to work on railroad sleeping cars, caring for the pass... more » bluebears: Whatever happened to LatchKey? more » clevernamehere: I had a (white, American born older lady) nanny and I nannied when I was a teenager, but I am sometimes amazed by the dynamics of some of these situat... more » likepenguins: Random nanny story: I nannied for two girls, aged 5 and 7, while in college (shortly before going to work the pole - less demeaning). One threw a cat... more » truckasaurus: Holy shit. The woman I used to sit for in NYC replaced me with a Tibetan nanny, whom she had been "chasing" for months (competing with other moms). I ... more » LaMorenita: on the one hand, a good family friend is a working single mom to three very young boys (4, 2, and six months, can you imagine?) and has a latina nanny... more » andheartss haz it: My mother was a nanny to a Jewish family in Jersey when she first came to this country [she was def not a maid...they had someone else for that!] and ... more » -
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"Don't You Just Love Your [Insert Ethnicity] Nanny?"
"When $800 strollers hit the market a few years ago, it looked as if baby status symbols had reached a new odd, capitalist apex. Now[...] primo credentials trade in a different kind of capital: nannies." Specifically, the brown-skinned kind.
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Project Runway's Laura Bennett Doesn't Appreciate The Judge-iness
Remember when former Jezebel Jennifer Gerson called out Laura Bennett for referring to her nannies as "girls"? Well, Bennett does, and, for some reason, over a year later, she's responded over at the Daily Beast. More » -
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The Nanny Diaries: Recession Causes "Overqualified Nanny" Epidemic
The recession means rich kids are out of a job too. Result? A crop of French-speaking, name-dropping Gossip Girl nannies! More »
