How nice! A daycare center for adult snowflakes who need pampering

How nice! A daycare center for adult snowflakes who need pampering
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Why should young adult snowflakes have all the fun? If students attending college are permitted to destress with hot cocoa, nap time, and coloring books (feminist themes, natch), why shouldn’t their parents have the opportunity to rediscover the own childhoods?

Well, now they can — provided they live in Montreal. According to Global News, the city just opened its first adult daycare center. There Montrealers who work high-pressure jobs in the corporate sector can blow off steam at the end of an 18-hour day workday by returning to the womb (more or less).

James Turner, the co-founder of the new venture, called iChild, emphasizes that the program “isn’t aimed at people looking to party on a Friday night — there are rules prohibiting alcohol, drugs or sex inside.” Translation: You can go home again; you just can’t take your Grey Goose with you.

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But, evidently, it’s not all hugs and Tinkertoys. According to Global News, “the games and activities in the daycare are designed for team-building.” That sounds a lot to me like work.

“Typically,” Turner told reporters, “the more boring your job is, the more you will benefit from this. Accountants, the tech sector — those are the people who really enjoy this.”

Six-hour sessions typically will cost $80 on weekdays and $120 on weekends, Turner said. Part of the experience includes juvenile comfort food like mac and cheese.

Similar ventures have started up in other cities, though this may be the first that calls itself a daycare center. In 2015, an adult preschool, called Preschool Mastermind, opened in Brooklyn. Going further back — to 2012 — a trend swept the UK that bordered on fetishism. Adults obsessed with retreating to infancy were encouraged to dress up in baby clothes, sit in outsize high chairs, and take siestas in grown-up-size cribs.

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles

Ben Bowles is a freelance writer and regular contributor to "Liberty Unyielding."

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