Be a Grown-Up For a Day

Wannado City in Sunrise, Fla., is one of my favorite places to take kids for the day. All kids of amazing activities, from being a fireman (with a fake "burning" building and actual water shooting out of the actual hose) to putting out an actual newspaper to making pizza (that you get to eat), kids get to earn money for trying to decide what they want to be when they grow up.

February 26, 2006

Where grown-up jobs are kids' stuff

By Lylah M. Alphonse, Globe Staff

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Does your child want to be a firefighter when she grows up? How about a doctor, an actor, a disc jockey? They are all options at Wannado City, a gigantic, reality-based indoor theme park that takes ''learning on the job" to a whole new level. ... [More]