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What Happens to Sims 4 Toddlers in game Should Stop.
Stormsview
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My Sims Family likes to go out to restaurants for the holidays, so most of our Restaurants Serve all the Grand meals and deserts. So, of course, we also bring our toddlers alone because they are part of the family. But what happens should be against Sims 4 laws. If we neglect our toddlers we get a warning or them remove from our home. But Somehow EA/Maxis feels it's OK for their Daycare to abuse our Toddlers.
The family had just arrived at the restaurant for seconds but the toddler was sent to daycare for no reason, so I click on bring the toddler here and they did. the mother took the toddler to the waiting table with a toddler high chair set her town ready to click on the high chair to give her food. But she poofed and she was not allowed the option to bring her back again, the toddler did arrive at the restaurant with needs all green close to full. soon I could see the toddler turn to red and the family went home with the holiday ruined by the daycare with the toddler all the way red for potty, red for fun and red for sleepy. This is mean and unfair and it should stop. If they take responsibility for our toddler they should treat them well and they should always come home with their needs in green and a happy moodlet.
EA/Maxis Should not exclude, ignore and remove our toddler when they visit a restaurant with their family,
also allow highchairs to be attached to tables, and toddlers should get food served to their highchair or just allow the parent to click on it for their food. How can EA/Maxis be so mean as not to recognize the most special member of the family for such outings...
Have anyone else had their family outing ruined from their Toddler being removed.?
Feel free to discuss other life stages in-game that you feel are being ill-treated.
The family had just arrived at the restaurant for seconds but the toddler was sent to daycare for no reason, so I click on bring the toddler here and they did. the mother took the toddler to the waiting table with a toddler high chair set her town ready to click on the high chair to give her food. But she poofed and she was not allowed the option to bring her back again, the toddler did arrive at the restaurant with needs all green close to full. soon I could see the toddler turn to red and the family went home with the holiday ruined by the daycare with the toddler all the way red for potty, red for fun and red for sleepy. This is mean and unfair and it should stop. If they take responsibility for our toddler they should treat them well and they should always come home with their needs in green and a happy moodlet.
EA/Maxis Should not exclude, ignore and remove our toddler when they visit a restaurant with their family,
also allow highchairs to be attached to tables, and toddlers should get food served to their highchair or just allow the parent to click on it for their food. How can EA/Maxis be so mean as not to recognize the most special member of the family for such outings...Have anyone else had their family outing ruined from their Toddler being removed.?
Feel free to discuss other life stages in-game that you feel are being ill-treated.
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Who said EA doesn't have a sense of humor
Who said EA doesn't have a sense of humor
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And yet they insist on adding ugly humongous YA costumes, which they don't even add to the costume list. It drives me insanely mad.
Yeah. The lack of tweaks to accommodate Toddlers in pre-Toddler Patch content, the lack of good non-object play interactions for Children, the weak snowball/water balloon fight animations, the fact that the recent magic pack had nothing for anyone younger than Teen...Sometimes, it's like the game is engineered more for giving Gen Y and Gen Z players the fantasy young adulthood we were robbed of the chance at due to the older generations' horrible economic decisions than anything.
"Here, Millennials and...whatever we decide to call you post-Millennials...we broke the economy and made college monstrously expensive while continuing to give you a K-12 education that does precious little to prepare you for the adult world, but, hey! We made a game for you where you can pretend you were able to move out of your parents' house, live away from them without room mates or student debt, have any real chance of advancement in your career, and can actually afford to own a home! Enjoy!"
But I do know you can put a highchair at a table. Maybe it's not all the tables or highchairs? You just put it close to the table and it snaps to it, just like a chair.
Except Sims 1 was 10 times more fun and enjoyable than Sims 4....
Now, to business, WHAT ON EARTH!?
I've never been brave enough to take my toddler to a restaurant, because of how buggy they are (can only just get a date to work okay with 2 ya/a), but I'm so sad the game won't even allow me an opportunity. I also take issue with the lack of costumes (feel exactly the same as the above poster), normal toddler clothes, and activities.
I can't speak for restaurants (Dine Out doesn't interest me in the slightest), but daycare works just fine for my toddlers. They do come back with a yellow 'fun' bar, but they get fed and even improve some of their skills at daycare.
The nannies, however, are a nightmare. All they want to do is cook meals and read books. Every once in a while, they'll do something for the toddler, but it's usually not what the toddler needs.
Some of the houses in my game are happy and functional families so I'm a player who ends up with some family play.
Yes. Nannies are just as useless as they were in TS2. All they're good for is keeping the kids in bed so they can actually get a good night's sleep when both parents work overnight. The daycare, in my experience, doesn't do anything for the kids in terms of filling their sleep need. Childcare outside of household members in this game, like all Sims titles, is completely worthless...
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My experience when taking a toddler to a restaurant was actually very nice. I invited the whole family together for a meal at one of my build restaurants. I even invited my sim's sister who has a toddler and they came along. I have putted the toddler in the high chair and gave it ready peas. After that the father took him out and he just played while the rest was enjoying their meal.
I do wish that I could have served the toddler restaurant food and just ordered a plate for the toddler or maybe a special section.
This is a perfect picture. A sims family enjoying dinner. They do have the full toddlers menu at the restaurant its in the appetizer menu. And of course, Toddlers eat whatever parents are eating when served at home.
I have fed a toddler at a restaurant before but it is rare that it works out well for me. What bothers me also is the restaurant staff is totally blinded by the fact that its a toddler there, When you order food for the table they do not show the toddler. What I wish EA/Maxis would do is... as long as a chair is attached to the table and a child is in the group it should be counted and recognize in the menu and in serving the food.
And I agree that we the parent should say if and when our child goes to daycare. Its no reason for EA to abuse toddlers at the daycare, they totally control that.
I have never had a toddler taken in-Sims 4 game. I am just like all simmers worry over our toddlers and take good care of them. So it is just no reason to take the toddler away at restaurants.
EA/Maxis Stop taking our Toddlers away its just no real reason for this. Why do you have applesauce and animal crackers on the menu if it is not to order for toddlers, is this another glitch that you did not bother to fix?
Who said EA doesn't have a sense of humor
I think this particular one isn't a bug or a glitch but rather the applesauce and crackers are there since they're quick meals that are available to all life stages and aren't toddler-specific (there is no meal that would be restricted to any life stage in the game).
ETA: the daycare situation seems very much like a bug though. There was an issue with it a few months back, but for me personally sending toddlers to daycare has been working just fine (minus, as someone else mentioned above, them having Fun while there).
I think they have a list of fixes they should do and I believe allowing toddlers to be recognized in a restaurant is one of the things they have not gotten around to and perhaps never will. They also have on the list to fix the restaurant glitch of sometimes a Sim table never being served, it does not always happen but it happens too often. And that's a ruined family outing or date.
We should be able to order food for everyone in our group that comes to the restaurant.
A toddler can sit in a dining chair and eat and they do wish to as the toddler gets more skilled. everyone knows whats after a Highchair, a booster seat for toddlers in a normal dining chair, just the child would have to enter from the side or have a parent sit them there. In the toddler's home, I do sometimes pull back one of the dining chairs a foot away from the table so that they can eat with the family and they do go to that chair after they get their plate, they do sit and talk with the family. Having toddlers booster seats is a little sophisticated for the Sims? no not at all they can do it as a free update that would just affect dining chairs.
Another way that would be easier, is to make it so that when a toddler sits in a dining chair they climb in from the side and then they can auto-adjust them to sit a little higher so that they can be at eating level, all done without a parents help with an older toddler, with a younger toddler they could have the same with parents assisting them. This would make it easier for the toddler to be served and recognized at restaurants.
Toddlers not bring recognized in a restaurant and not being served is wrong and an insult to a member of the Sims family so when they get around to fixing Restaurant glitched this should be most important. Restaurants have needed to be restructured for some time.
Who said EA doesn't have a sense of humor
Not about toddlers, but I keep hearing about Elders having nothing to do, and how ageist that is, and I am genuinely confused. Aside from having to be mindful of overexertion with heavy physical activity, how do elders have nothing to do, since they can continue doing all the things all other stages of adulthood can do?
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
Pretty sure they’re just angry that we don’t have any canes or whatever for elders, or any stereotypical elder activities like knitting and bingo or something.