Home Visits Help Parents Overcome Tough Histories, Raise Healthy Children [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/23/178:13 AM

Seated at a kitchen table in a cramped apartment, Rosendo Gil asks the parents sitting across from him what they should do if their daughter catches a cold.

Blas Lopez, 29, and his fiancée, Lluvia Padilla, 28, are quick with the answer: Check her temperature and call the doctor if she has a fever they can't control.

"I'm very proud of both of you knowing what to do," Gil says, as 3-year-old Leilanie Lopez plays with a pretend kitchen nearby.

Padilla says that's not a question they could have answered when Leilanie was born. "We were asking question after question after question," she recalls.

[For more of this story written by Anna Gorman, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/he...ise-healthy-children]

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