I never did. I play on rotation so there is only time for about 1 simday per house per sim year. I age toddlers up aged 5.
I see some build skills faster than others though, and I guess it would be on time I check what benefits those extra toddler traits might be. I know nothing about them, assuming they will help with better skills in childhood, but not make much difference as an adult?
I am playing legacy for the first time now and I don't control my toddler.
I only control the parents and I watch what the toddler is doing.
When the parents have time I would let them sit with the toddler and learn her things.
At the other times she's developing them herself by playing etc.
I have 56 days for a toddler so I am assuming the skills will get maxed by itself without my control.
But for the realism, I don't want to 100% control it
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Every time, unless it's not a household I intend to play.
It just makes skill grinding later on so much easier tbh and that's the only reason why I bother. The necessity of the high chair and how broken the AI is around high chairs is literally the #1 thing I absolutely hate about TS4.
I'm practically on 'default' now for neverweary and hardlyhungry on my main sims. Two grind things I do not like in the game.
That being said, I do enjoy toddlers if it's a household I want to play.
> @heartlacing said: > Every time, unless it's not a household I intend to play. > > It just makes skill grinding later on so much easier tbh and that's the only reason why I bother. The necessity of the high chair and how broken the AI is around high chairs is literally the #1 thing I absolutely hate about TS4.
I never buy a highchair. I just serve food leave it on the counter and let the toddler grab a plate.
Not always, but quite often I do. It's not difficult, so sometimes the toddlers max out the other skills on their own except thinking skill (on long life span they do max thinking too). I often only help them to max the thinking skill at first and let them do the rest of the skills by themselves.
It also depends on the toddlers, if I don't have any specific plans for them I just let them do whatever they want.
If Skill Day is coming up or if the parent completed the Big Happy Family aspiration, then I definitely do it. No reason not to. Otherwise if I'm anxious to move the story along, I'll get all their skills to 3 instead.
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Sometimes, but I don't push it. Not everyone needs to be a top-notch toddler. I play on a long lifespan, so at times I age up the toddlers a bit earlier. If they haven't maxed their skills yet when I want to age them up, then they just haven't.
@Simmerville Parents can use the "teach to say sorry/please and thank you" interactions with toddlers, and I believe it will influence both the communication skill and the related character value. They also get the same hit to responsibility that children do when making messes, and I think a few other interactions can have some effect on character values, but it generally moves the values by a smaller amount than during the child stage. I've never seen a lot of benefit of trying to work character values with toddlers because the gains are so small and their regular skills take up enough time if you play on normal.
There is a permanent trait that they get if all their toddler skills are at 3 and then a different one if they're all at 5 (except potty which maxes at 3). They both give permanent boosts to the speed of skill gain for all future life stages, in addition to starting their childhood with a skill boost. There is also a random happy moodlet sims can get if they have those traits because they remember a happy childhood or something like that, but I can't say whether that continues into adulthood offhand. I know my kids and teens get it.
Every time. It's super helpful for building skills later, and I've got a routine down for it that allows you to knock them out with a few days to spare.
Step 1: Talk to the teddy bear while Happy. This will max communication in a few sim hours.
Step 2: Use the slide from Toddler Stuff while Energized. This maxes movement in the next few sim hours after step 1. If you don't have the slide, have an adult Play with the toddler a few times, though this will take longer.
Step 3: Play with a toy while Playful. If the toddler has low energy, have an adult read them to sleep. This takes a few iterations, so be patient.
Step 4: Watch adults while Happy. This is the best way to take care of Thinking.
Step 5: Have the toddler go potty whenever their bladder is halfway down. Use potty training at every opportunity unless the toddler is independent.
This method gets toddler skills maxed with a few days to spare for fun.
My toddlers max their skills by themselves. It's not even hard on the longest life setting.
This is basically my experience and I usually use a normal life span. (minus the potty)As long as they have toys, a tablet, maybe another sibling/stuffed doll etc. I don't really have to push them. Ages ago,I'd race to get them all maxed through the parent sim(s) (super parent, what are ya gonna do? ). But after a while, I noticed that by just letting them learn on their own, they get a lot more done (and it wasn't just trait-based either to my surprise).
Now that's just without mods. Recently I added the "Better Education mod" (in general it makes school soo much better!!) that gives an optional preschool rabbithole for toddlers. It's a really cute idea for working families who just aren't fans of the nanny and they can also gain skills there too and meet other toddlers too (perfect "BFF since preschool" scenario ).
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I see some build skills faster than others though, and I guess it would be on time I check what benefits those extra toddler traits might be. I know nothing about them, assuming they will help with better skills in childhood, but not make much difference as an adult?
I only control the parents and I watch what the toddler is doing.
When the parents have time I would let them sit with the toddler and learn her things.
At the other times she's developing them herself by playing etc.
I have 56 days for a toddler so I am assuming the skills will get maxed by itself without my control.
But for the realism, I don't want to 100% control it
It just makes skill grinding later on so much easier tbh and that's the only reason why I bother. The necessity of the high chair and how broken the AI is around high chairs is literally the #1 thing I absolutely hate about TS4.
That being said, I do enjoy toddlers if it's a household I want to play.
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> Every time, unless it's not a household I intend to play.
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> It just makes skill grinding later on so much easier tbh and that's the only reason why I bother. The necessity of the high chair and how broken the AI is around high chairs is literally the #1 thing I absolutely hate about TS4.
I never buy a highchair. I just serve food leave it on the counter and let the toddler grab a plate.
It also depends on the toddlers, if I don't have any specific plans for them I just let them do whatever they want.
There is a permanent trait that they get if all their toddler skills are at 3 and then a different one if they're all at 5 (except potty which maxes at 3). They both give permanent boosts to the speed of skill gain for all future life stages, in addition to starting their childhood with a skill boost. There is also a random happy moodlet sims can get if they have those traits because they remember a happy childhood or something like that, but I can't say whether that continues into adulthood offhand. I know my kids and teens get it.
Step 1: Talk to the teddy bear while Happy. This will max communication in a few sim hours.
Step 2: Use the slide from Toddler Stuff while Energized. This maxes movement in the next few sim hours after step 1. If you don't have the slide, have an adult Play with the toddler a few times, though this will take longer.
Step 3: Play with a toy while Playful. If the toddler has low energy, have an adult read them to sleep. This takes a few iterations, so be patient.
Step 4: Watch adults while Happy. This is the best way to take care of Thinking.
Step 5: Have the toddler go potty whenever their bladder is halfway down. Use potty training at every opportunity unless the toddler is independent.
This method gets toddler skills maxed with a few days to spare for fun.
This is basically my experience and I usually use a normal life span. (minus the potty)As long as they have toys, a tablet, maybe another sibling/stuffed doll etc. I don't really have to push them. Ages ago,I'd race to get them all maxed through the parent sim(s) (super parent, what are ya gonna do?
Now that's just without mods. Recently I added the "Better Education mod" (in general it makes school soo much better!!) that gives an optional preschool rabbithole for toddlers. It's a really cute idea for working families who just aren't fans of the nanny and they can also gain skills there too and meet other toddlers too (perfect "BFF since preschool" scenario