I want to play a super challenging file with a single mom, child, and toddler. The mom will not be able to afford a babysitter (I have mods that make jobs pay minimum wage & take out income tax) so i need a way for her to go to work without babysitter being required.
I was planning to have the mom stay home with the toddler while the child is at school, and then the child comes home and mom goes to work..
But it won't allow me to leave the toddler in the care of the child right? Is there a mod for this?
I know alternatively i can take the toddler to the work lot and leave her outside but that is obviously even less realistic than the original idea (which isnt very realistic lol)
I was thinking i could "pretend" the workplace has free daycare and leave the toddler on the lot pretending shes inside at the daycare lol. But that makes it less challenging.
Any thoughts?
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Maybe the Mom should engage in some sort of open lot or work at home type of career if possible until the kids are old enough to take care of themselves?
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One thing you could do though, with NRaas Master Controller, is to have the adult simply "visit" the lot, instead of actually going to work. They can take the toddler inside for a visit. Then use MC to give them the amount of money they would have earned if they had actually gone to work. I did that with my singer sim, who I wanted to have a part time job until she started getting paid gigs. I kept sending her back in to visit again, until she had put in the number of hours I wanted her to work.
What I would do myself in that situation, though is to have the mother make money from a skill until the toddler ages up. I actually had a game like that, a single mom with a child and twin toddlers. She painted to earn money while the toddlers were small, but she also had to train them. I put a few buydebug plants on her lot, and pretended they were wild apples, grapes, lettuce, onions, and garlic, because those do grow in the wild where I live. So she was able to harvest them for food, until the toddlers got older. She lived in a tiny, run-down log cabin with an "outhouse."
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HAHA right?! The huuuge difference between my life and the life of my sims... totally scary!
Gotcha! Thats what I figured thank you!
Interesting!! I figured it was a stretch if someone made that possible in a mod because it is definitely not something that people ever hear of (hopefully) in real life! Work at home sounds like a good idea though!! Thank you:)
I'm considering having a second adult. I love painter sims but i want to stay away from any income other than rabbithole working with my minimum wage mod! Lol i really like big challenges :P but i was thinking maybe a grandmom or something!
Totally true!!! I would be too afraid to come home in the sims, let alone rl... hopefully none of us would ever do that in real life! Dont worry guys, i am only crazy/evil with my sims... lol
Hahaha very true!
Oh i didnt know that! I havent tried it but i assumed only because ive had adult sims grocery shop and what not while the child stays outside lol. And i have done that before, with keeping them on the lot & manually paying them! Good idea..the only thing about bringing the toddler to the lot during "work" though is that it isnt quite realistic to bring your kid to work lol thats why im trying to come up with some sort of realistic child care situation (well.. a child caring for a toddler is NOT realistic hahaha) but you know what i mean! Also your game sounds super fun/challenging! I just dont want her earning that much from painting... hmm! Thank you for your ideas!! All something to think about!
Wow!!! Such a cool story! I love it and that sounds like a super fun challenge... i am just a little hesitant because ive done similar challenges with painting collecting etc and it brings in money too easily IMO! I like super realistic games usually so I feel like in a real situation working some minimum wage job would be her only option with no skills.. but maybe i will set limits or something on how much she can paint.. idk!! Thank you for your input!!
Although it isn't common, there are businesses that have on-site daycare for the employees' children. You could pretend her employer provided that.
What made that game extra challenging is that the mother couldn't leave the lot at all, because there was no way she could take both toddlers with her, without hiring a babysitter, which she had no money for. While they were still toddlers, she wasn't able to earn much, because it takes a lot of time to take care of toddlers and train them. So she didn't get much painting done at all until they were fully trained. And at the lower skill levels, they don't get much for their paintings anyway.
same, however you could say that it is quite scary and you would not do it in real life!
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Its just one suggestion.
I was planning to have the mom stay home with the toddler while the child is at school, and then the child comes home and mom goes to work..
But it won't allow me to leave the toddler in the care of the child right? Is there a mod for this?
I know alternatively i can take the toddler to the work lot and leave her outside but that is obviously even less realistic than the original idea (which isnt very realistic lol)
I was thinking i could "pretend" the workplace has free daycare and leave the toddler on the lot pretending shes inside at the daycare lol. But that makes it less challenging.
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I found a fix/loophole if you have the teleport any sim mod then if you click on a sim it gives you the option "Just go away!" If you press the immediately leave the lot. Then your and toddler will be home alone...
Or if you have MC command center then in the section "MC Cheats" it will have the option to "Make Sim Leave" if you press that if will also make them immediately leave the lot. Now it may say you can't leave them alone but just hire another and they will not show up...
Hope this helped(I know it's a little late but)
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