On a trip to Guatemala with my toddler, her grandparents' fears give way to fun
ANTIGUA, Guatemala - When I told my parents I was bringing my 3-year-old daughter with me on assignment to Guatemala City, I heard a gasp.
"What? Are you crazy?" my mother said over the phone.
She turned her attention to my father, who was listening in. "She's taking Cora to Guatemala. Can you believe it?"
"She's crazy," my father said.
The water was bad, they said. There's crime, they told me. What would I do if Cora fell ill? Got kidnapped? What if she contracted a parasite?
The list went on and on.
I was as taken aback. This was coming from parents who were born and raised in Guatemala.
Never mind that they regularly took my siblings and me to Guatemala on vacation throughout the 1980s and early '90s - during the throes of a bloody civil war.
Some of my best childhood memories were formed in Guatemala, where I was allowed to
