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Childless Ana Navarro Gives Parenting Advice to Trump Voters

Steve Fast
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So in the last few days, I got a call from a couple of people, friends of mine, people very close to me in Miami, big Trumpers, who are worried now about what’s going to happen to their undocumented nannies that help them raise their children. So I told them that I suggested they learn how to clean their kids’ a**. --Ana Navarro

First of all, I doubt that Ana Navarro has any "big Trumpers" who are close to her. And I doubt that they would call her to bemoan their supposed impending loss of their illegal nannies. So this whole reported conversation is probably BS.

But leaving that to the side, Ana Navarro has no idea about parenting. She's never had a child, even though she is 52. In fact, she only got married at 47, if Wikipedia is to be believed. So I doubt she's ever hired a nanny, legal or illegal. And certainly never wiped a kid's a**, as she put it.

But most importantly, she has no idea about the world that most Trump voters live in. Very few hire nannies to care for their kids. Most Trump voters have always wiped their own kids' behinds. Many Trump voters struggle with paying for daycare or finding a relative to care for kids. And lots of Trump-voting moms (and probably a few dads) have the joy and privilege of staying home and raising their own children.

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  • Full Size Tabby@FullSizeTabby

    I too call BS on the claimed anecdote. Even if there are Trump supporters who are concerned about their illegal immigrant nannies being deported, they would have thought about that long ago - not just after the election- and they would by now have figured out a plan. Deporting illegal immigrants is not some new or sudden idea from the Trump camp.

  • AMD Texas@DarinJohnson

    I am well into my 6th decade. I learned how to wipe a kid's butt in my first decade. I don't think I am odd or I wasn't in my family. That was a pretty normal thing in East Texas in the 70's. Families were fairly big and everyone pitched in...even the older kids.

    I don't know about Ana Navarro but I know about me. I was involved with raising kids when I was a kid. We didn't have nannies. We had siblings and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins. We all helped out.

    I suspect it is harder today with families being smaller and spread out. I still don't know anyone with a nanny. I do know folks that are fine without one and have never considered one legal...or especially illegal.

  • EODmom@EODmom
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    AMD Texas (View Comment):

    I am well into my 6th decade. I learned how to wipe a kid’s butt in my first decade. I don’t think I am odd or I wasn’t in my family. That was a pretty normal thing in East Texas in the 70’s. Families were fairly big and everyone pitched in…even the older kids.

    I don’t know about Ana Navarro but I know about me. I was involved with raising kids when I was a kid. We didn’t have nannies. We had siblings and Aunts and Uncles and Cousins. We all helped out.

    I suspect it is harder today with families being smaller and spread out. I still don’t know anyone with a nanny. I do know folks that are fine without one and have never considered one legal…or especially illegal.

    It’s a problem for a pretty rarified segment of the population - one Navarro inhabits, but most don’t.

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