Raise Your Hand If You're A "Kidult!"

Are YOU a kidult?

[Carla Rea[ / via BMG Las Vegas

I fully admit that I'm a "kidult!" I love *board* game nights, going to Disneyland, or Six Flags - WITHOUT kids - and watching Dawson's Creek and Gilmore Girls.

It's a great term, and it actually dates back to the 1950s when the TV industry used it to describe adults who enjoyed youthful programming. Today’s kidults, along with their adult paychecks, are driving demand for the pastimes and culture of their youth.

Kidults love their toys. A 2021 Toy Association Survey found that 58% of adults had purchased a toy for themselves, 65% purchased board games, 61% bought crafting kits, 53% bought collectibles, and no surprise here - 52% threw down money for video games.

The trend has also lead big brands to release toys geared toward adults: Grown-up-sized Razor scooters, adult Lego sets, and very expensive Barbies that only kidults would buy.

Adult coloring books are big business, as are Funko Pops, with their bobbleheads of just about any character - from Bob's Bigboy, to Hannibal Lecter.

And get this: Google searches for adult bounce houses are on the rise. Oh kids - PLEASE make sure to share the video of your mom and dad in the bounce house!

So kidults, in closing I say and three little words: adult summer camp!

- Carla Rea

96.3 KKLZ Kids The Mike and Carla Morning Show

Carla ReaWriter

Carla Rea is the morning show co-host on “The Mike and Carla Morning Show" on 96.3 KKLZ, in Las Vegas. She has been working with her partner and friend Mike O'Brian for the past 25 plus years. At KKLZ for 12 years. Carla Rea is a Gracie Award winner. She started out in talk radio, "when talk radio was still fun" Rea says. Prior to, and along with doing the morning show, Carla is also a comedian. You may have seen her on Conan O'Brien, Evening at The Improv, Showtime, or several comedy clubs across the country. Carla also worked as a light feature reporter at KSNV/NBC Las Vegas, going behind the scenes at various shows, and restaurants on the Las Vegas strip. As a content creator 96.3 KKLZ, Carla writes in a sarcastic, cheeky, unapologetic way on Las Vegas, movies, TV, celebrities, and this thing we call life.

Raise Your Hand If You’re A “Kidult!”

I fully admit that I’m a “kidult!” I love board game nights, going to Disneyland, or Six Flags – WITHOUT kids – and watching Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls. It’s a…

Carla Rea

Raise Your Hand If You’re A “Kidult!”

I fully admit that I’m a “kidult!” I love *board* game nights, going to Disneyland, or Six Flags – WITHOUT kids – and watching Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls. It’s a…

Carla Rea

I fully admit that I’m a “kidult!” I love board game nights, going to Disneyland, or Six Flags – WITHOUT kids – and watching Dawson’s Creek and Gilmore Girls. It’s a…