The rise of “kidulting”
Experiences that let adults act like children are booming
A YOUNG WOMAN slides herself gleefully into a fake bathtub filled with giant plastic “bubbles”. Snack bags of popcorn are handed out inside a room designed to look and sound like the inside of a popcorn machine. Friends snap selfies amid colour-changing lights before heading to the pillow-fight section and pummelling each other with feather-filled cushions.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “See you at the bubble pit”
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