Hey! In my game, it seems like everything I do affects responsibility, but in a negative way? It's not always when I do something that should impact the character values either—I can have kids literally sitting there and watching television, and somehow that's making them irresponsible. It's gotten to the point where I have two toddlers with 100% negative responsibility, without doing much other than babble to their parents (and no, they haven't made a mess yet, this is a brand new save/family). I haven't found anything about it online, and I've read that responsibility is one of the easier values to influence but I'm just... struggling, lol.
Is there a way for me to change this? Is it just because they're toddlers (and therefore, can't be responsible for anything), and do I have to wait until they're children to rectify it? Is this a bug? Any help would be appreciated. I don't have any mods installed, so that can't be the issue.
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Do you have any insight on toddlers? I'm not up to the child/teen stage yet.
I do have mods installed, but if people are experiencing this without mods, then I'm not sure its the mods' fault.
EDIT: After saving, exiting, and reopening my game, it appears that it was only a visual bug. The toddler's conflict resolution is back to where it should be.
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I opened my game to check if it's the case for me, and it turns out it is! What a relief; I was beginning to think I'm a bad parent.
These things can increase/decrease when a toddler is sleeping.
They can also reset - ie you lose all of the green progress.
Toddlers can gain responsibility when you discipline them for doing "bad" things like splashing in the toilet or making a mess on the floor.
Good to know!
> Having the toddler put toys away raises their responsibility
Indeed. I purposely pulled all the toys out of the toy box and had them scattered around the room. Then I had the toddler put them all away which raised responsibility. However, it's so easy to level responsibility through the child and teen life stages that it's sort of irrelevant.
I don't worry too much about toddlers and responsibility -- I start in earnest when they hit childhood with making sure they get their homework done, setting the table and other tasks. I actually saw one of my Sim kids setting the table autonomously when he was playing at my other family's house.
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Same here......toddlers don't get enough gain or loss to make much difference.