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Too much Cursing -- Parenthood
troshalom
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I reluctantly purchased the parenthood pack, because I had an erratic sim with an alien toddler whose relationship was horrid. I didn't have a way to discipline her nor improve his parenting skills.
However, I regret adding it, because now everyone is cursing all the time for no reason: Sweet reasonable Patchy, is swearing up a storm. Beautiful sweet children are cussing for random reasons. Adults who aren't traited with being hotheaded or evil are always cussing. Toddlers are extremely angry and defiant all the time. I have my sims visit homes with toddlers and those babies are always angry, destroying the doll house, punching the stuff animal and throwing paint everywhere. Come on, it is too much.
I get it that parents need to disciple their children, but can we dial back this constant cursing and slinging of paint everywhere?
In one sim family I invited children to a wedding and before the bride and groom could take pictures and walk down the aisles these random children were throwing paint, flour, and chocolate down the aisle! I had my sim tell them to all go home, but it was sad, because I really wanted them at the wedding.
I love playing generations, and was enamored with the dimensions EA gave to the toddlers in TS4. But I hate what Parenthood has done to toddlers and children.
In another sim family my alien sim and his human girlfriend had triplets. They married after the toddlers became children and moved in together. The children learned absolutely no values while with their mother (I wasn't playing her household). After a few sim days, I just aged the kids up to teenagers because I couldn't take the constant cussing and paint slinging happening multiple times a day. And don't forget about the monsters under the bed several times a night. Now in households I play that I want to raise a generation I no longer use single beds, I only use doubles because those dog on monster events were happening several times a night and my sims were always tired. Even when the sim child befriended the monster, they would be awaken again the same night by the monster and be terrified. Too much.
EA, I am all for realistic game play, but not every child/toddler in every family behaves like this. I thought the traits were supposed to control the child's behavior along with guidance. Seriously, in another sim family, the baby aged up to toddler and 5 minutes after learning to walk started slinging paint on the floor. The kid just literally learned how to walk, like 5 minutes ago was in a crib, where did it get the paint?
Finally, I have had enough of toddlers waking up out of a dead sleep and waking up every single adult that is not a member of thier household. Seriously, my sim and his girlfriend along with their twin toddlers went on vacation. The twins woke their father up every time he went to sleep. Mother sleeping right next to him in the bed, she doesn't bat an eye nor wake up.
I created a lot with tents, etc that mimics a camp site for a home world, and invited 7 sims over to the lot including the twin toddlers. Whenver adult sims, who weren't members of their household, would fall asleep they would cry and wake them up and then go back into the tent and sleep.
This is cruel and unusual punishment EA. Parenthood has sucked all of the fun out of toddlers that I had before I purchased that game pack.
Please tweak whatever code, if/then scenario you have in place for toddlers and children when it comes to bad behavior. It is just too much.
However, I regret adding it, because now everyone is cursing all the time for no reason: Sweet reasonable Patchy, is swearing up a storm. Beautiful sweet children are cussing for random reasons. Adults who aren't traited with being hotheaded or evil are always cussing. Toddlers are extremely angry and defiant all the time. I have my sims visit homes with toddlers and those babies are always angry, destroying the doll house, punching the stuff animal and throwing paint everywhere. Come on, it is too much.
I get it that parents need to disciple their children, but can we dial back this constant cursing and slinging of paint everywhere?
In one sim family I invited children to a wedding and before the bride and groom could take pictures and walk down the aisles these random children were throwing paint, flour, and chocolate down the aisle! I had my sim tell them to all go home, but it was sad, because I really wanted them at the wedding.
I love playing generations, and was enamored with the dimensions EA gave to the toddlers in TS4. But I hate what Parenthood has done to toddlers and children.
In another sim family my alien sim and his human girlfriend had triplets. They married after the toddlers became children and moved in together. The children learned absolutely no values while with their mother (I wasn't playing her household). After a few sim days, I just aged the kids up to teenagers because I couldn't take the constant cussing and paint slinging happening multiple times a day. And don't forget about the monsters under the bed several times a night. Now in households I play that I want to raise a generation I no longer use single beds, I only use doubles because those dog on monster events were happening several times a night and my sims were always tired. Even when the sim child befriended the monster, they would be awaken again the same night by the monster and be terrified. Too much.
EA, I am all for realistic game play, but not every child/toddler in every family behaves like this. I thought the traits were supposed to control the child's behavior along with guidance. Seriously, in another sim family, the baby aged up to toddler and 5 minutes after learning to walk started slinging paint on the floor. The kid just literally learned how to walk, like 5 minutes ago was in a crib, where did it get the paint?
Finally, I have had enough of toddlers waking up out of a dead sleep and waking up every single adult that is not a member of thier household. Seriously, my sim and his girlfriend along with their twin toddlers went on vacation. The twins woke their father up every time he went to sleep. Mother sleeping right next to him in the bed, she doesn't bat an eye nor wake up.
I created a lot with tents, etc that mimics a camp site for a home world, and invited 7 sims over to the lot including the twin toddlers. Whenver adult sims, who weren't members of their household, would fall asleep they would cry and wake them up and then go back into the tent and sleep.
This is cruel and unusual punishment EA. Parenthood has sucked all of the fun out of toddlers that I had before I purchased that game pack.
Please tweak whatever code, if/then scenario you have in place for toddlers and children when it comes to bad behavior. It is just too much.
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In any case, I don't think I've ever seen an adult curse, and outside of the phase, I haven't seen it with my kids and teens, either. Mod issue?
I am not using any mods
…. I agree to disagree
Do you have Seasons installed too? And Get together
I have seen foul language not just from my active household but other sims around town too.
Even with out Parenthood when Sims were angry or tense they'd shout or stomp their feet. I haven't had a ton of angry/defiant toddlers unless they're independent, or another trait that includes defiance. As far as anger goes, sugar will make them angry.
I have those installed and don’t see a lot of cursing. I’m actually making my sims curse when they’re angry 😅 if they’re cursing alot, try reporting to the bugs section in the ea forum.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/bd-p/The-Sims-4-Bugs
Cursing not been an issue for me.
The nightlight won't help toddlers, but reading them to sleep and raising their thinking skills will help alleviate the sleeping problems.
As far as the mess making goes, I either cancel it out when I see it starting, or have the parent discipline the child. They can also do it for inappropriate "language."
It also helps to play the lullaby station on a stereo in the toddler's room. (It won't keep them awake.) It's been awhile since one of my toddlers has had a nightmare, and in that case, I couldn't read her to sleep because there was a thunderstorm. (There's a bug that makes the toddler try to 'run inside' when you read them to sleep during a thunderstorm.)
If you are a rotational player, though, even well-behaved child sims will act out if they visit while you're playing another HH. Perhaps this will be adjusted in a patch, at some point, but as of the June 18th patch, they're pretty bad in my game. (I haven't updated to the July patch; waiting for August's patch.)
I am not a programmer, but to me, 'our' sims don't act like themselves when the game is treating them like npcs, so I tend to think the ones I see out & about are temporary clones of 'my' sims, & not the real thing. Any relationship changes effectuated while the temp-clones are gallivanting about get transferred to the real sims, so...it's only how I explain away the discrepancies, & not how the programming works.
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This! I am so tired of people advocating for features I paid for to be removed. I like the cursing and the mess making. Life is messy and people curse. They don't say any actual words I mean seriously. Doesn't anyone watch pack videos or LP s as research before a purchase? Geeze. I have paid for so many features i like just to have them nixed later it's ridiculous.