It’s no fun to visit a theme park and not get to go on the rides. And that’s the big problem with Camp Snoopy at Knott’s Berry Farm: Far too many rides that parents can’t experience with their kids.

I remember cramming my 6-foot frame into the little Huff and Puff mining cart at Knott’s Berry Farm and huffing and puffing as I very slowly chugged around the miniature track under my own strength. I ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon in my neighborhood in Queens, I stopped to watch a mother, father, and their young child. The parents, in church suits with the mildly stoned look of the truly exhausted, ...