Comments on: Cleaning Lady Alert

By: hereorthere

hereorthere — Wed, 05 May 2010 21:55:15 +0000

I do not know about this particular story about the gas.

I do know that not everything on snopes is accurate either, just because it is there.

By: comment225

comment225 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:10:32 +0000

as a doctor, just want to discount the ‘babysitter gassed my baby’ thing. whether or not this guy’s cleaning lady is a thief, I cant say. why he (or anyone else) would leave their child home with a house-cleaner, is beyond me. cleaning ladies and nannies are two different things.
but the gas thing is on snopes, people!
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/gassed.asp
this guy probably also believes that 9/11 never happened, and it is a conspiracy to bring down the government!

By: bec

bec — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:10:27 +0000

“Please note these cleaning people are not , most likely Spanish, but Hispanic, which is a total different thing.
Most Spaniards are honest hard working people.”

His·pan·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America. 2. Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture. n. 1. A Spanish-speaking person. 2. A U.S. citizen or resident of Latin-American or Spanish descent.

[This term] was coined in the early 1970s by the United States government to classify diverse people with a relationship to the Spanish language or culture. The term is used to describe people who were born in any Spanish-speaking country of the Americans, or those who can trace their lineage to Spain or Spanish territories. This includes a vast number of people of diverse countries and ethnic groups. Many Hispanics would rather view themselves according to their distinct identity, in contrast to the broader label of Hispanic.

wow. that’s a lot of thieves–almost all of south and central america. i’d also be very interested in seeing the statistics on how many spaniards are hardworking and honest people in comparison to the hispanics mentioned previously.

By: yiddishemomma

yiddishemomma — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:20:07 +0000

#23&24,

I live out of town in Metro Detroit. I don’t know if there’s anything like this in the N.Y. area.
They charge 30.00 an hour, but remember there are two of them and they get everything I need done in 2 1/2 hours and I have a 4 bedroom ranch house.
I don’t have them do much in the bedrooms anyway, my children are older and take care of their own rooms. The bathrooms, kitchen, etc. are done really nicely. Their name is cute: Broom Hilda, but I don’t know if there’s a point to give phone# unless you live around here.
Also, here are times (NOT around Pesach), that I only have them once a month but for a little longer a time.

By: pj-moo

pj-moo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:09:42 +0000

aLSO, YiddisheMama please share the name of the agency, I’d love to try them. But you should also be aware that there was recently an expose done on these agencies, they are not always as great as they seem, so be vigilant there too.

By: pj-moo

pj-moo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:08:15 +0000

To the letter writer, thank you for reminding us of this, it is always good to be reminded so that we don’t get too comfortable or trusting. After reading this I will be even more vigilant with my HISPANIC help, although I NEVER left her alone.
My opinion is that people’s motivation for using cleaning help and babysitters is very personal, and not really anyone else’s business.
Some might not use cleaning help because they cannot afford it. Others might nobly feel it is their Tachlis to clean for Pesach (and throughout the year) on their own, and they have the personality not to resent it, plus the time to accomplish it.
Some of us are SAHM by choice and/or financial ability and others can’t be stay at home mothers, or don’t want to be and wouldn’t be good as a mother working only in her home.
Since I would assume that most of us are reasonably intelligent and also want to do the best thing for our children, I assume we are only leaving our children with babysitters if we need to either for financial reasons or on rare occasions for our sanity. And when we leave our children with our baby sitters we OBVIOUSLY find the best care-giver that we can afford. In some communities it is possible to find a frum woman, in others it isn’t. But even a frum woman is NOT a mother! Don’t kid yourself. It’s far better than a Goy or not frum babysitter. But it doesn’t replace a Mommy! The other day, I was running out and asked my FRUM babysitter to wash my daughter Negel Vaser. As I watched her she poured water 3 times over her right hand and then 3 times over her left hand. It’s definitely not the way I would have done it. And I will be making sure that I wash her Negel Vaser from now on, so that it’s done the way I would.
We have to do the best that we can do. I assume most of us are. Of course we must be vigilant! Especially with our children.

By: usbaers

usbaers — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:59:12 +0000

Re #17′s suggestion to hire heimishe cleaning ladies: are there any? it doesn’t seem like a popular career choice for yidden. We wanted to go that route but the closest we could find were ladies willing “to babysit and do ‘light housekeeping’” or ladies willing to clean but asking for a full time job at severely higher wages. we would have been really happy with a high school girl trying to make some money after school but they too do not want to do this particular kind of work (except perhaps for their own mothers). So we gave up and are trying to train our kids to be neat.

By: bec

bec — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:39:27 +0000

just one more thing. would you leave your kids alone with the plumber or the electrician to run out to the bank? so why would you ever leave your kid(s) alone with the cleaning woman? she’s an employee employed to clean your house, not babysit your kids.

By: tomim tihye

tomim tihye — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:18:20 +0000

Yiddishemomma- Is this cleaning service in Brooklyn? I’d love to obtain their number. Thanks!

By: ketzies

ketzies — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:02:55 +0000

#22 how much do they charge and what’s their phone number?