Now here's a classic paradox of child's play: kids just love to pretend to be working adults (in doing so, say the psychologists, they master their masters). Some bright experience capitalist in Florida (where else?) has invented a theme park which allows kids to do this to the max. Wannado City - 'where kids can do what they wannado' - resources kids to be a painter in the morning, a pizza maker at lunchtime, a fireman in the afternoon and star in a Broadway show in the evening. (Or as Marx said: under communism, "I may hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic").
"Everything (kids) are told not to touch in real life, you can," Wannado's Valerie McCarty says in USA Today. "It's exposing kids to various roles." Exposing or imposing? And will they grow up to demand the long-awaited adult version?
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