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04-17-2007, 03:22 PM
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New Nanny
We just hired a Canasian one. My God, what have we done?
Does this mean that my kids will start acting Canadian?
If so, how do I de-Canadianize them?
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04-17-2007, 03:35 PM
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Re: New Nanny
There's no going back now... Mwahaha!Quote:
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If so, how do I de-Canadianize them?
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04-17-2007, 03:54 PM
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Re: New Nanny
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Originally Posted by MarineHawk
We just hired a Canasian one. My God, what have we done?
Does this mean that my kids will start acting Canadian?
If so, how do I de-Canadianize them?
Watch their "aboot"s and "eh"s.
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04-17-2007, 04:25 PM
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Re: New Nanny
Will wet wipes help?
Do they make special Canadian-Cams?
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04-17-2007, 04:26 PM
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Watch their "aboot"s and "eh"s.
Already got a dose of the "aboots." Kinda freaked me out. I'm trying to just pretend that she is Minnesotan or something.
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04-17-2007, 04:36 PM
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Re: New Nanny
Both of my sons were cared for by a wonderful German woman and after a while I noticed the youngest picking up a German accent.
She was amazing, every day she would prepare fresh pastries, a wide array of fruit and just about anything else from scratch you could dream up.
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04-17-2007, 04:58 PM
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Both of my sons were cared for by a wonderful German woman and after a while I noticed the youngest picking up a German accent.
She was amazing, every day she would prepare fresh pastries, a wide array of fruit and just about anything else from scratch you could dream up.
We'd have a problem with that because my 3-yr-old would get into trouble. Listening to the tour guides at the Air & space Museum repeatedly talking about how the P-38s and other American fighters shot down x number of German fighters in WWII, he's begun to associate Germans as anti-American targets for his "blasters." When we run around the back yard, he's always shooting at dinosaurs and Germans hiding in the bushes or at the German planes flying overhead in and out of Dulles. I try to explain to him that the Krauts aren't really that bad anymore, but to no avail. He'd be pointing his golf club or sticks at the German nanny and blasting her all the time. She might get tired of that. Though maybe he will grow out of this.
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04-17-2007, 05:56 PM
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beauty aaaeee? take off
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04-17-2007, 09:41 PM
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Re: New Nanny
That's hilarious. Now teach him about radical muslims.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarineHawk
We'd have a problem with that because my 3-yr-old would get into trouble. Listening to the tour guides at the Air & space Museum repeatedly talking about how the P-38s and other American fighters shot down x number of German fighters in WWII, he's begun to associate Germans as anti-American targets for his "blasters." When we run around the back yard, he's always shooting at dinosaurs and Germans hiding in the bushes or at the German planes flying overhead in and out of Dulles.
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04-17-2007, 08:11 PM
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Quote:
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Both of my sons were cared for by a wonderful German woman and after a while I noticed the youngest picking up a German accent.
She was amazing, every day she would prepare fresh pastries, a wide array of fruit and just about anything else from scratch you could dream up.
Did she also make the playclothes out of the household drapes?
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04-17-2007, 08:23 PM
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Did she also make the playclothes out of the household drapes?
Ohhhh roflol ... "The hills are alive with the sound of music..." Too funny.
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04-17-2007, 08:11 PM
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Watch their "aboot"s and "eh"s.
ROFLOL! You got THAT right!!
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04-17-2007, 08:08 PM
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We just hired a Canasian one. My God, what have we done?
Does this mean that my kids will start acting Canadian?
If so, how do I de-Canadianize them?
Taking away their cheese necklace is a start. We are powerless without our cheese necklaces.
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04-17-2007, 08:46 PM
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Taking away their cheese necklace is a start. We are powerless without our cheese necklaces.
I Googled "cheese necklace" with "Canada," and I still don't know what you are talking about. What's a cheese necklace?
BTW: She seems like a great lady - that's why we hired her.
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04-17-2007, 08:52 PM
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BTW: She seems like a great lady - that's why we hired her.
We're just having fun. LOL. I bet she is a great lady. Our friends have a nanny from the Czech Republic. She's absolutely wonderful and nurturing. She's grandmotherly and has the kids best interests at heart. Hope your family's nanny is also a wonderful one for you. (BTW, I don't get Dennis' cheese necklace joke either, though I have NO doubt that he'll enlighten us soon. )
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04-18-2007, 04:53 PM
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Re: New Nanny
If they start saying please and thank-you and have manners and using napkins they have been Canadianized and all you should do is Thank God. Your welcome The RebelQuote:
Originally Posted by MarineHawk
We just hired a Canasian one. My God, what have we done?
Does this mean that my kids will start acting Canadian?
If so, how do I de-Canadianize them?
P S Another sure sign is if they use silverware when they eat.
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04-18-2007, 07:17 PM
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If they start saying please and thank-you and have manners and using napkins they have been Canadianized and all you should do is Thank God. Your welcome The Rebel
P S Another sure sign is if they use silverware when they eat.
Other things you should watch for are if your child starts to pick up phrases like:
"Hi Soldierboy!" instead of "Hi Dad!"
Or
"Me love long you time!" instead of "I love you too Dad!"
Or
"No pay....No play" instead of "Dad I need lunch money."
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04-18-2007, 07:22 PM
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"Hi Soldierboy!" instead of "Hi Dad!"
When I tell him he's a good boy, he already sometimes corrects me with "I'm a good Marine."
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04-19-2007, 04:54 AM
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Re: New Nanny
Since you took the last comments in good spirit I'll tell you what my Dad always taught me. When it comes to napkins the Englishman puts it around his neck the American puts it on his lap and the Canadian throws it on the floor and steps on it. Regards The RebelQuote:
Originally Posted by MarineHawk
When I tell him he's a good boy, he already sometimes corrects me with "I'm a good Marine."
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