How can you raise five/six children?
I been playing TS3 very recently. So far my first gen was a single mother in medical career raising a daughter of Xander Clavell who is now a young adult. Now I'm moving onto 2nd gen with Xander's ...
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I play on low free will, so it's not always easy. If things get too stressful, I send the kids to boarding school. But I did have one family once that had a total of 13 children, because I decided that every time both of them wished to have another child, I'd let them. There were never more than 9 sims in the household at once, with NRaas Story Progression making that possible, as I moved them out as soon as they aged up to young adult. My strategy was to assign each child one skill that they would continue with for hours at a time, until I stopped them or they finished something, like painting or playing a musical instrument. I also had each of them do fun activities they would stay with, like playing on the playground or playing chess or sim gnubb. So I'd get most of them busy with those activities and then focus on having just one of them doing things that needed more input from me. It worked well. I never got stressed from playing them. However, I found it impossible to get attached to them as much as I usually do to my sims' offspring, because I wasn't spending much time with any of them.
There was one exception though. When the first one aged up to teen, she became responsible for the babies and toddlers in the night, and whenever during the day the mother was busy in her garden or cooking. When she aged up to young adult, the next most recently aged up teen took over those duties. As it turned out, that second teen, who was a twin, was my favorite, so I didn't move her out when she aged up. Instead, she stayed at home until first her father, then her mother, died. Then she moved to another town with the three remaining minor children.
There was one exception though. When the first one aged up to teen, she became responsible for the babies and toddlers in the night, and whenever during the day the mother was busy in her garden or cooking. When she aged up to young adult, the next most recently aged up teen took over those duties. As it turned out, that second teen, who was a twin, was my favorite, so I didn't move her out when she aged up. Instead, she stayed at home until first her father, then her mother, died. Then she moved to another town with the three remaining minor children.
