New Nanny

[MarineHawk]

Originally Posted by mdoyle

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.