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Small things I want for sim children
SimSwim2
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I would really like sim children to be able to use the easel to create paintings. They were able to in sims 2 and 3. I also want them to be able to play the guitar and piano. More instruments in general for all sims would be nice like drums or the recorder or triangle for children. Children should also be able to do more exercise things like go for a jog or use exercise equipment with a parent supervisor or kid safe equipment like a trampoline or ballet bar. Also maybe jobs such as paperboy. More after school activities such as art club, sports club, debate team, mathletes, chess club, dance or ballet, choir/band, etc.
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specifically missed a lot of the hobbies kids could do in 2 the most like ballet and lemonade stands (though it's kinda doable with get to work but eh)
I wish kids could also take a dog out for a walk and use magic/be touched by magic. (Toddlers too, I want to scruberoo them so badly).
No. There's no child sized version or animations.
Yes jogging more excersise because my kids are fat and I'm like how'd they get like this so I'm feeding vegetarian meals to help them lose the weight but we need excersise like jogging or playing tag, hide and go seek like get these kids active instead of just the playground.
That's why I also think an Education Game pack is severely needed.
I noticed that my sims gain weight much more quickly since I bought Cottage Living. I adore the pack but yeah, that is a pain.
I think it's a glitch because I played once they were skinny and then it's like they woke up with weight gain but it's not just them it's all over my game and I also find it hard to get promoted. When I did all what they asked and my Sims meter is all high and the work meter is saying excellent but no promotion.
That's very weird. I hope it sorts itself out.
Physical Activities:
Ballet, Karate, Gymnastics, Jogging, Tap Dance, Cycling, Horse Riding, Football, Golf
Creative Activities:
Painting, Cooking, Baking, Gingerbread house making, Reading Comic Books, Kites (making and flying), Guitar, Drums, Flute, Saxophone, Science experiments like the potato with toothpicks in a glass of water or growing a small plant in a little pot, mailing gifts to pen pals
Games:
Tag, Cat's Cradle, Board Game, Lego Building Blocks, puzzles, small teddy bears, hopscotch
*edited to add seesaw, slide, treehouse/clubhouse, catch with ball or baseball mitt, baseball
Karate was a Sims3 thing but I am not sure if kids could do it or not because I never tried it family-style.
In Sims4 I found it impossible to earn a certain Scout Badge (Keeping Fit or something) because none of the exercise activities Sim kids could do, seemed to count. So I researched it, it was a known bug, and a mod to let kids jog, did the trick, on both my teen and kid Scouts (neither of whom could get any points for pushups or anything else, so only jogging would do it)
Horseback riding can't happen in a game without horses, so again, that's a Sims 3 thing (along with a lot of afterschool clubs and classes, instead of only having the choice of Scouts or Drama Club.
And if Drama Club ever gives Sims4 kids any Acting skill for all the time they put in, I never saw it so I stopped trying with that.
For science experiments, you have the School Projects. The Baking Soda Volcano, the model solar system, and so on, and they can do them with a parent or other adult, or independently.
Hopscotch is also in Sims3, as are seesaws and slides, and play/climbing gyms (rather than just monkey bars), and even an assortment of kids' treehouse/clubhouse options that are really cool (kids can sleep in them, and adults can woohoo in them but not while kids are present obviously)
Lego Building Block table in Sims3 can be used by kids, whereas in Sims4, the only object similar to that can only be used by toddlers according to the description. Very sad, because in Sims3, a parent can play legos with their kid.
And I do seem to recall Sims3 kids playing tag, also.
I got around a little bit of Sims 4 kids not being allowed to do anything, almost, except go to school, by a mod called Kids Can, which lets them load the washing machine and turn it on, and wash dishes at the sink, that sort of thing.
Sims 3 babies and toddlers can also be pushed around town or countryside in a stroller, babies can use a baby swing, and toddlers can ride a spring toy outside, play in a sandbox, etc.
Sorry to sound like an ad for Sims3 but it is where a lot of the options people are listing, already exist.
It's not all roses in Sims3 though: imaginary friends are horrible demons that are always evil or insane once you get to know them, but can't be deleted or they corrupt your game; curfews are enforced whether parents want that or not so that a teen working a night job at the graveyard will get brought home by police and automatically grounded, meaning he can't go to school the next day but then he gets grounded again for not going to school so he can never stop being grounded, and walks with a Vlad-like creep-sneak walk for the rest of his life, sometimes, when it glitches and doesn't go away once he ages up to adult.
Most of what I want for kids in Sims4, there is an easy mod for. It would be nice if adult sims could rock toddler or kid sims on their laps in a rocking chair, and read to them in it. Also babies should be able to be rocked in the rocking chair.
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I'll have to add seesaws, slides and treehouse/clubhouse to my list.
Which mods do you use for kids? I have found some cute toddler toys from pandasama
Toddlers and babies is a whole other topic I have a big list for that too which I have shared many times in feedback
If they add horses, I will also definitely need UNICORNS and maybe a donkey or mule for Cottage Living
-Scouting aspiration - it would help rack up those badges
-Family aspiration - parents get aspirations regarding family interaction, kids should get aspirations relating to interactions with parents and siblings
I would love more communal activities for kids, and for families in general.
Yes! Definitely we need more child aspirations I think there are only four of them. I'd like the Scouting one and also a Drama one too.
Other aspiration ideas for kids:
A+ student, with lots of reading, homework, school project, activity table drawing, clay molding goals.
Fishing, since kids can fish, with goals at the park, collecting fish, fishing with family and friends
Collecting, frogs etc.
Pet care, interacting with cats/dogs, finding strays.
Older Sibling, socializing and caring for toddlers/babies.
Chores, cleaning, setting table, washing dishes etc.
Music, mastering the violin or piano, listening to music etc.
Just so you know kids can play with the Lego table I’ve given it to many families and kids do it all the time by there selves
The Buildems Blocks Play Table can be used by Toddler+, but only toddlers gain skills from it (if you read the description it says Toddlers only, but this is referencing Imagination skill).
Child-Elder can build the various models.
Toddler-Elder can play with the completed models.
Oh that makes sense! I wondered why they'd have the description wrong, but I didn't realise to try if my toddler could play with the completed model