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 forgot about how easy/difficult it is to raise just 5 or 6 children. My games use mods to make the number in a household unlimited.
But - after reading what others have said above I remember how much assistance a live in nanny used to be. I just make a nanny sim and keep them in my inventory for whenever she/he is needed to assist. It is now not unusual for me to need more than one nanny at a time as I'm in the habit of having many babies and toddlers - up to around 15 at a time. But that's another story about my boarding school idea. I collect toddlers and children from around town and teach them skills all at once and the result is my towns are much more lively and full of sims who know each other well and they drop into their old boarding school after they've returned to their parents and do their homework with the old friends.
I also give my sims high autonomy, that way I'm not constantly trying to remember to tell them to eat or relieve their bladders.
Steel bladder LTW is useful.
I have lots of bathrooms just in case there is a rush to get clean before having to go to school.
I try to keep the fridge well stocked with meals any child can grab at any time.
I refuse to have a high chair on the lot as that causes mayhem once there is more than 1 toddler.
I occasionally use play pens and walkers, but I move them to the family inventory when they get too annoying with parents constantly moving toddlers to a playpen when the toddler needs to learn skills that do not require a playpen or walker.
I regularly click through all of the sims portraits in order to check the needs of each one and deal with any that need dealing with. After school I check their homework has been done. Usually they will do it autonomously, but occasionally one starts to avoid doing it and their grades can drop really fast and they are hard to get back up again. I try to keep their school grades on A Grade.
I make sure toddlers are fed and clean before the parents or nannies are too tired to deal with them. That way the toddlers usually sleep through the night. Once they get into a habit of screaming endlessly it is extremely difficult to stop it. Some toddlers are just naturally constant screamers and others can be quite placid regardless of how much care is taken of them.
Toddlers and babies are easier once there are children and teens in the house except with more sims capable of taking care of them it can become a lineup to move the baby or toddler from whatever activity it's doing to some other activity and shuffling them needlessly around cribs is one thing that sims can get into the habit of doing. The baby bouncer/blanket thing is annoying as the sims are obsessed with putting baby into it and then taking it out again.
Another thing I routinely do is cycle through all of my sims to check if they have enough Lifetime Happiness points to buy a reward that I think might be useful for them to have.
Then I sit back and watch the mayhem. Often I record the mayhem and use it to make YouTube videos.
Main thing is to have fun.
Happy Simming
But - after reading what others have said above I remember how much assistance a live in nanny used to be. I just make a nanny sim and keep them in my inventory for whenever she/he is needed to assist. It is now not unusual for me to need more than one nanny at a time as I'm in the habit of having many babies and toddlers - up to around 15 at a time. But that's another story about my boarding school idea. I collect toddlers and children from around town and teach them skills all at once and the result is my towns are much more lively and full of sims who know each other well and they drop into their old boarding school after they've returned to their parents and do their homework with the old friends.
I also give my sims high autonomy, that way I'm not constantly trying to remember to tell them to eat or relieve their bladders.
Steel bladder LTW is useful.
I have lots of bathrooms just in case there is a rush to get clean before having to go to school.
I try to keep the fridge well stocked with meals any child can grab at any time.
I refuse to have a high chair on the lot as that causes mayhem once there is more than 1 toddler.
I occasionally use play pens and walkers, but I move them to the family inventory when they get too annoying with parents constantly moving toddlers to a playpen when the toddler needs to learn skills that do not require a playpen or walker.
I regularly click through all of the sims portraits in order to check the needs of each one and deal with any that need dealing with. After school I check their homework has been done. Usually they will do it autonomously, but occasionally one starts to avoid doing it and their grades can drop really fast and they are hard to get back up again. I try to keep their school grades on A Grade.
I make sure toddlers are fed and clean before the parents or nannies are too tired to deal with them. That way the toddlers usually sleep through the night. Once they get into a habit of screaming endlessly it is extremely difficult to stop it. Some toddlers are just naturally constant screamers and others can be quite placid regardless of how much care is taken of them.
Toddlers and babies are easier once there are children and teens in the house except with more sims capable of taking care of them it can become a lineup to move the baby or toddler from whatever activity it's doing to some other activity and shuffling them needlessly around cribs is one thing that sims can get into the habit of doing. The baby bouncer/blanket thing is annoying as the sims are obsessed with putting baby into it and then taking it out again.
Another thing I routinely do is cycle through all of my sims to check if they have enough Lifetime Happiness points to buy a reward that I think might be useful for them to have.
Then I sit back and watch the mayhem. Often I record the mayhem and use it to make YouTube videos.
Main thing is to have fun.
Happy Simming
