Leave the toddlers alone for 5 seconds, please!

Erica87

My sims constantly flock around the toddlers, constantly checking up on them, picking them up from their high chairs (despite me planning to give them food in a few minutes), placing them in the high chairs (despite them not needing food OR a drink) and watching them. I understand that toddlers do need a lot of attention but surely they can be left in their high chairs for about 10 minutes untill dinner is ready. It's really unneccessary for sims to pick them up and place them down somewhere else and the constant checking up on them is needless as well since I'm keeping a watchful eye on their needs myself, no need for my sims to do that. I mean it would be okay if the sims had nothing better to do but if everyone's priority during a birthday is to pick up and put down toddlers then that's kind of too much. It even went so far that I had to turn off the autonomy to get sims to even remotely be interested in what's going on apart from the toddlers. The thing is, while they're putting them in high chairs or removing them or checking up on them they never have the idea to actually talk or socialize with them. It seems like the toddler's needs is every sim's first priority even when the needs are pretty much full.

Generally I just want them to do something else apart from picking up / putting down and checking up on toddlers. This is a real issue for me and I think the autonomy / frequency of these actions need to be turned down a notch or two.

I also think it's bad that my sims give the toddlers crappy quick meals when there's excellent stuff in the fridge that they could eat instead.

rosemow

Hello
You may like to post feedback on this thread on the AHQ EA site that refers to the issue
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/TROUBLESHOOT-Autonomy-issues-since-toddler-update/m-p/5819628#M32257

MarLove6

Same thing has been happening to me. I turned my autonomy on for my sims because I wanted my toddlers to be able to do whatever and behave according to their emotions and not have me controlling it. But the parents are constantly checking up on the toddlers and picking them up so much that I have turned autonomy off. I have the same problem with the high chairs especially. I put them in to give them food and the adult automatically takes them right back out of it. Very frustrating

rosemow

MarLove6 wrote: »

Same thing has been happening to me. I turned my autonomy on for my sims because I wanted my toddlers to be able to do whatever and behave according to their emotions and not have me controlling it. But the parents are constantly checking up on the toddlers and picking them up so much that I have turned autonomy off. I have the same problem with the high chairs especially. I put them in to give them food and the adult automatically takes them right back out of it. Very frustrating

Hello
It would be good to post feedback on the AHQ EA site link that I posted .

Erica87

I did however I've seen more interactions with the gurus in this forum than over there so that's why I wrote it down here as well.

rosemow

It is good that you posted feedback on the issue. It will help the developers.

NobodySim

I posted in feedback already. I too have noticed this. It is worse when the toddler need bar is red, and with a full house of adults. Setting a caregiver did not help.

I learned to accept my first toddler would live on animal crackers alone (she seems fine?) since the alternative was starvation due to too many helpers not letting her eat! I did get quick at pausing and cancelling the "Check Toddler" on most of the household. But it comes right back so fast.