Reading WHITE HOUSE NANNIES (the name of her firm) by Barbara Kline, which came out in 2005, and which has me howling with laughter - quietly - here at the public library. Imagine a nanny so dumb she had to ask, while at Ocean City, Maryland, which ocean they were in ?!
Page 33 "Finding nanny for parents anywhere is a tricky proposition. You're playing God by creating brand-new families. Most professional mothers in town (Washington, D,C area) are in such hot pursuit of their particular kind of success that they need lots and lots of childcare, usually from Day One. There's such a shortage of domestic help in our country that for the last several decades, foreigners have filled the gap...
Page 40
" Because I bring together nannies and families from such different backgrounds, cross-cultural surprises are bound to occur. One mother, whose baby was teething, noticed her Haitian nanny's unusual home remedies. She held her child up to the sun whenever possible and rubbed his head with alcohol. The mother found the nanny praying over the child in a dark, candlelit basement room. Even though the nanny's bizarre techniques seemed to calm the teething baby down, she was fired. So much for cultural tolerance...'
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