Just wanted to say, finally got a chance to really sit down and try playing a family with toddlers. Got two parents. Was planning to have the girl get pregnant, have a kid or two, raise them to adulthood, etc., to experience Parenthood fully.
So I got the girl pregnant, when she gave birth I was like... oh wow, twins. Then a third one came. Oh wow, this is going to be chaos... triplets. I aged them all up to toddler since baby doesn't really have any character progression.
Now I have two parents trying to take care of three toddlers. It's sheer chaos and a constant balancing of watching needs to make sure they all stay high. Neither of the parents are working at the moment, so that helps, but if they were, I'd so need the tots going to daycare. Cause the parents are getting virtually no free time.
It's overwhelming and crazy, but I love it. Most of the time the gameplay feels too easy, so this is a nice change and the tots are just so adorable.
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Do you have a schedule? Like for waking, sleeping, eating etc to help get you through it?
One thing I noticed, having a dollhouse in the home seems to do a lot for attention and fun getting taken care of without me planning it out. They go for it a lot and then the parents get called over to join them. Sometimes it can be annoying how often they go for it, but I've yet to have a moment where a tot was low on attention or fun, so that certainly helps.
Yeah, small households is usually how I play. I think the main difference I find is in the game leading me vs. me leading it. With a big household with numerous tots, you kinda have to adapt to the sort of survival mode of the game, trying to keep peoples' needs in check. With a small household, especially with only adults, you often have to pick what to do next because the needs are easily managed and often without you even getting involved, so there's not a lot to push you in any particular direction. At least, that's been my experience so far.
It is special that your sims had triplets! It is great that you are enjoying having the toddlers in the midst of the busyness of family life. It is a challenge but also fun!
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Ah I see. Yes, not using the highchairs is my #1 tip to save parenting stress, so it's good that you got a plate of food for them to take from.
I, personally, find having a schedule and rotating them between each parent and chatting to the giant teddy helps keep them feeling socialised. Balancing triplets is hard work though! I feel for you. Glad you're enjoying it.
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the next challenge: pets and toddlers. specifically i'm thinking an untrained, un-potty trained puppy! plus a few toddlers. I plan to add to my apartment the gremlins lot trait just to make it more challenging
sounds fun! And i mean it. This is what i loved about previous game. Something to be busy with and total chaos like its real life! I cant wait untill my baby grows up as a toddler and the new one is coming any time soon now. Too bad their elder sister is already a kid and missed her toddler stage, cause the patch came later.
I was wondering because normally things like that aren't added through stuff packs and it struck me as odd.
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If you can get them to sleep through the night, that helps. If the parent reads the toddler to sleep, they won't get nightmares. Getting the Thinking skill up also helps as it reduces the frequency of nightmares and also reduces how often they throw tantrums and defy their parents when trying to teach them things or play with them.
The dollhouse changed with the Parenthood pack where the toddlers can now autonomously summon a parent to play with them at the dollhouse (also for watching TV or dancing but those happen less often). That was bugging me too...got really bad during 7 toddler challenges. If you use mods, I found a good mod which will prevent the toddler from summoning the parent to the dollhouse or there's a version where they can only do it once every 24 hours: http://littlemssam.de/no-autonomous-picker-dollhouse-tv-dance/ The toddler will still play with the dollhouse so that part isn't impacted at all.
Now, the family of five live in a small, two bedroom apartment. Both parents have jobs; Dad is a doctor and Mom is a teacher, so they’re both pretty busy with their three growing toddlers.
but they didn't mind and just smiled adoringly. I found having them toilet trained and able to walk up stairs got rid of a lot of chaos
and I never use the high chairs I just put a bench next to the dining table, that way they can all eat in one place.
Yes I do the same.
I love playing sims 4 toddlers it keeps me so busy
are the parents working what's the plan with them?
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Not the OP, but as I like to say it, this is my personal toddler schedule that evolved from all toddlers I ever had:
Toddler want food, so you feed toddler.
Toddler want bed, so you put toddler in bed.
Toddler want bath, so you put toddler in bathtub.
Toddler want potty, so you put toddler on potty. And be happy when toddler can go by himself/herself.
Toddler want fun, so you play with toddler.
Toddler want nothing, so you teach toddler to speak until you fall unconscious. Partner meanwhile calls maid to clean house (will be needed!).
Is of course difficult with 3 toddlers. But not impossible.
Just very likely that your Sim parents never manage to sleep in their bed again.
You may need to sell their bed anyways so you can afford having someone come over to repair appliances and clean the house.