Stockholm Syndrome

Even in a family friendly and worldly metropolitan area like the Twin Cities, a parent can find himself in a bind. The long, dreary, cold winter can some times limit your options for kid activities, so when you’ve taken your children to the Zoo, the Children’s Museum, the Science Museum, and the indoor playground so often in recent weeks that your children threaten mutiny and the museum and the mall staff begin to recognize you and flash you a gaze of quiet judgement and disappointment, you have no option but to keep everybody home. But those extended periods of self-imposed house arrest can be a boon to bilingual upbringing if you can muster the energy  and mental fortitude to do the work. Starting this past Thanksgiving,…