Sims are so Mean to their Children

SimsxZelda_fan

I have those baby swings from the shop, its easier to take care of babies during the day with them. But when I leave my infant in there and let the parent do whatever, sometimes they'll go up to the chair and turn it on high which only terrorises the baby and makes him nauseous.

Does anybody else experience Sims doing these kinds of things to their children on their own? Lol

LaBlue0314

I constantly have to keep an eye out for my babies in those swings. For the most part they don't like that fast setting, and if they do, it's for a very short time period. I can't even put a high chair in the home, because they are always trying to over feed the toddlers.

justbrice

I had a parent walk in when I tried to do a prank and they got scolded. It's fun to play pranks on the parents. I get a kick out of it.

06Bon06

Nope, most of my Sims are really good parents, they never leave them on the floor they play with them and I even had a sims autonomously teach his toddler to walk.


However this same toddler's mom was the one that basically ignored her and would rather cancel out my commands to go play with her daughter's toys instead of taking care of her child.

Scrapdash

I've seen them do that yes, though most of my sims are good parents, they do seem to love switching that thing to fast.

The worst abuse is when you aren't playing the family. One time just scrolling around the town in the middle of the night, spotted this sad sight. I'm pretty sure the parents weren't even in.


It's even worse when you see the height of those steps!


Another one I caught, it was a stormy night, he was in the garden all alone with just the IF for company. Kept checking on him and the wee guy was there till dawn in the pouring rain.

06Bon06

My sim only played with her toddler in the high chair, also this is my favorite toddler I ever had XD

mmallory10

I had a mother who booed her toddler playing the xylophone, I thought that was pretty cruel. But the butler then started clapping and praising the toddler.

5782341b77vl

Every Sim parent is guilty of this -

Newborn On The Floor

You watch. Within 24 Sim-hours of being brought home - that newborn is going to end up on the floor - everytime!

Even worse, I once had my Sim lay a baby outside... on the ground... covered with snow! The snow was deep enough to where she disappeared and became impossible to retrieve. I'm not sure if they would've gone back out and gotten her on their own, but since the parents seemed preoccupied with the other baby girl, I ended up having to use "resetsim" on the poor forgotten baby to have her brought inside - out of the cold!

By the way:

She grew up quite nicely and is currently a Young Adult. She works in music and does street art on the side.

After a rough start to growing up, I'm sure you can understand why I'm protective (maybe OVERLY-protective) of her!

06Bon06

5782341b77vl wrote: »

Every Sim parent is guilty of this -

Newborn On The Floor

You watch. Within 24 Sim-hours of being brought home - that newborn is going to end up on the floor - everytime!

Even worse, I once had my Sim lay a baby outside... on the ground... covered with snow! The snow was deep enough to where she disappeared and became impossible to retrieve. I'm not sure if they would've gone back out and gotten her on their own, but since the parents seemed preoccupied with the other baby girl, I ended up having to use "resetsim" on the poor forgotten baby to have her brought inside - out of the cold!

By the way:

She grew up quite nicely and is currently a Young Adult. She works in music and does street art on the side.

After a rough start to growing up, I'm sure you can understand why I'm protective (maybe OVERLY-protective) of her!

Not if you have the baby mat or bouncy chair. Then they always route to one of those to place the baby. I love them ^^

igazor

Usually, though not always, I find that leaving babies on the floor or the ground outside indicates that the house doesn't have a crib available for the baby/toddler, or it's not reachable for some reason, and the sim really doesn't know where else to put them.

On the heckling of future musicians, my parents did that to me at a very young age. But to be fair, not everyone appreciates the constant sound of Wooden Spoons Banging Against Metal Pots. Go figure.

TadOlson

I've seen my Jankowskys taking great care of their babies in Glen Harbor when I peeked in on them though those babies are close to becoming toddlers.

Chimark

The swing has never worked well for me. If one Sim isn't speeding it up, the other Sim is removing the toddler/baby and put him/her on the floor. I usually wind up taking it away, like the Ice Cream Machine..

If you play Sunset Valley look for poor little Sam Sekemoto, the father and grandmother are constantly leaving that kid outside, and heaven forbid you should send your Sim to look at Sam, the father and granny get all upity and in your face.

On the other hand a Plumbot with the nanny trait (or whatever it's called) is awesomely efficient.

LaBlue0314

Chimark, talking about bad parents in Sunset Valley, Claire Ursine, will take first prize for what I saw in one of my past games. The sim I was playing had went to the park that was in the middle of town. While Claire was talking to some other sims, her young toddler had crawled out to the middle of the street. She never went to get her youngster out of harms way.

SimsxZelda_fan

I've seen a sim walk their child out across the street in a stroller and a car came barreling down the street full speed. Luckily, in this game, cars go through things! Lol

JoAnne65

5782341b77vl wrote: »

Every Sim parent is guilty of this -

Newborn On The Floor

You watch. Within 24 Sim-hours of being brought home - that newborn is going to end up on the floor - everytime!

Even worse, I once had my Sim lay a baby outside... on the ground... covered with snow! The snow was deep enough to where she disappeared and became impossible to retrieve. I'm not sure if they would've gone back out and gotten her on their own, but since the parents seemed preoccupied with the other baby girl, I ended up having to use "resetsim" on the poor forgotten baby to have her brought inside - out of the cold!

By the way:

She grew up quite nicely and is currently a Young Adult. She works in music and does street art on the side.

After a rough start to growing up, I'm sure you can understand why I'm protective (maybe OVERLY-protective) of her!

No, they don't. I even did a test once where I made a plumbot put a baby on the living room floor in the middle of the night. The first thing my parents did when they woke up in the morning was both heading downstairs to pick her up. Father won the race and brought her to her crib autonomously. My next test was to make her really hungry. Father fed her, autonomously. Then he got hungry himself and the first thing on his to do list was take breakfast from the fridge. But before doing that, he went upstairs with the baby in his arms and put her into her crib. Only then did he go to the fridge to get breakfast.
(beware, I have picture proof )

KevinL5275

06Bon06 wrote: »

Not if you have the baby mat or bouncy chair. Then they always route to one of those to place the baby. I love them ^^

What is the baby mat or bouncy chair?

LaBlue0314

Those are items you can buy from the store.
http://store.thesims3.com/premiumContentProductListing.html?scategoryId=13145&catalogId=10143
To see them and more, baby stuff can be found here.
The baby mat, I think is included in with Midnight Hollow. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think it is included with this item.
http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:69433

Yes I looked into a little further, but it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgPBkrEf0M

06Bon06

LaBlue0314 wrote: »

Those are items you can buy from the store.
http://store.thesims3.com/premiumContentProductListing.html?scategoryId=13145&catalogId=10143
To see them and more, baby stuff can be found here.
The baby mat, I think is included in with Midnight Hollow. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think it is included with this item.
http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:69433

Yes I looked into a little further, but it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtgPBkrEf0M

Yes it come with midnight hollow and you can but the baby mat for a 100 simoleans from Buydebug mode

WestGhost

I've had my parent sims lecture their babies when they get woken up in the middle of the night from the crying. I can't remember if it was in Sims 2 or Sims 3, though. I tend to play legacy-style, which means that when I have sims born in-game, I roll for their traits rather than choosing them myself. So I get a lot of Evil sims. The "steal candy" interaction always happens when I'm not looking, and it always makes me a little sad.

GaiaHypothesis

5782341b77vl wrote: »

Every Sim parent is guilty of this -

Newborn On The Floor

You watch. Within 24 Sim-hours of being brought home - that newborn is going to end up on the floor - everytime!

Even worse, I once had my Sim lay a baby outside... on the ground... covered with snow! The snow was deep enough to where she disappeared and became impossible to retrieve. I'm not sure if they would've gone back out and gotten her on their own, but since the parents seemed preoccupied with the other baby girl, I ended up having to use "resetsim" on the poor forgotten baby to have her brought inside - out of the cold!

I have a save where I play wishacy style, in which I have NO interaction with the infant unless the needs are in the red or unless the parent wishes to do something with the child (or autonomous) and this has literally NEVER happened.. and they have like 6 kids.

Townies do it, because they don't have a crib for the baby. So if I see a "floor baby" I'll ctrl+shift and "Buy on this Lot" and add in a crib. They will pick up the baby and put it away.

Even my worst set of parents never left their baby on the ground if there was a place to put it (crib, high chair etc) I will add playpens and swings, and highchairs to all family-centred lots in town.

SimiLova

SimsxZelda_fan wrote: »

I have those baby swings from the shop, its easier to take care of babies during the day with them. But when I leave my infant in there and let the parent do whatever, sometimes they'll go up to the chair and turn it on high which only terrorises the baby and makes him nauseous.

Does anybody else experience Sims doing these kinds of things to their children on their own? Lol

Haha I can totally understand that. Totally reminds me of the Sims 2 days of when my sim parents would give the kid a bottle one minute. And the next they are tossing them in the air and getting thrown up on. Such wonderful parents lol.