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FairyHappy22
Seasoned Scout
6 years ago

She is OUT of her mind!

https://i.imgur.com/vG7cQ3S.png

If she thinks she's about to have 10 kids total, then she's crazier than my uncle! Those lifetime points can be up in the millions and it's still not going to happen. I mean, look how much money they have. No more kids!

And who they think is going to take care of them? The dogs? Kevin and Cassidy barely took care of the ones they have. I had to keep cancelling out things like 'play with toy' and 'chat with' sim to get them to feed their kid.
  • karritz's avatar
    karritz
    Seasoned Rookie
    Getting toddlers to read their toddler skill books in the library speeds up that process to amazingly fast. Give them the book to read and it's finished almost immediately. Never timed it as it goes too fast.
  • In case not everyone is aware of this, not all of the toddlers' books are the same length. Each of the three skill building series has one short, one medium, and one long book. So if one wants to compare reading times in various conditions, one has to use books of the same length to do so. The Johnny Sprocket series that do not build skills but only count as books read, those I am not sure if they are different lengths or if it matters (poor Johnny).
  • @Karritz - Those would be the junk food of the toddler literary world. But you see, it is only by consuming garbage every once in a while that we can come to appreciate the better things in life. May as well teach them that lesson early. I believe they do get credit for the books read though, which could be helpful if they work on the Writing skill when they are older. I let them read those, usually on their own, when it's clear they are going to get through the nine skill building ones in plenty of time before their birthday to child. :)
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    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    "Fairy_Happy;c-16983152" wrote:
    @IreneSwift: 13?! How?! That is lot of kids! Golly geez, I tip my hat to you. That was probably hard to do.


    It wasn't that hard to do it that one time. I am actually considering doing it again. I kept most of the family members busy with something they would keep doing until I canceled the action out of their queue, like playing chess or guitar, or playing on the playground. Then I could do something with one of them that required more attention and input from me. They each had their turn with that. The biggest difference from my normal style of play was that I didn't get attached to any of the children except for the first born of the twin daughters, who was the one who stayed to help with the babies and toddlers after she aged up to young adult, until her parents had both died. Even though I controlled all of them, I didn't really give any of the others much attention.
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    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    "Fairy_Happy;c-16984417" wrote:
    @IreneSwift: Hmm, when you put it that way, it's doesn't seem like it's that tedious. If you do try it again, are you going to make a story or something?


    No, writing stories about my games makes them stressful, and I play to relieve stress. So I decided some time ago not to ever attempt it again.



    "igazor;c-16984461" wrote:
    And if you want to see my definition of cute, that would be a musically gifted teen playing the guitar for his four much younger siblings all in their cribs with their needs already having been met, with tiny little "relationship plus" signs coming out of their cribs as they enjoyed his music. :)


    Now I'm going to have to try something like that. I've never seen that happen before.
  • karritz's avatar
    karritz
    Seasoned Rookie
    @igazor I never bother with the Johnny Sprocket books. My toddlers always read all 9 skill books. The slow way is to do it at home - the fast way is at the library. I usually do it at home.
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    karritz
    Seasoned Rookie
    "igazor;c-16988865" wrote:
    @Karritz - Those would be the junk food of the toddler literary world. But you see, it is only by consuming garbage every once in a while that we can come to appreciate the better things in life. May as well teach them that lesson early. I believe they do get credit for the books read though, which could be helpful if they work on the Writing skill when they are older. I let them read those, usually on their own, when it's clear they are going to get through the nine skill building ones in plenty of time before their birthday to child. :)


    I think I got put off reading the Johnny Sprocket books early on, back in 2009, when I had my toddlers read all books and do all their training and then didn't get to choose their trait due to bad parenting. It only seemed to happen when they'd read the Johnny Sprocket books so I got into the habit of not letting them read them. I rarely try to do the writing career.
  • IreneSwift's avatar
    IreneSwift
    Seasoned Newcomer
    Since reading toddlers to sleep was broken by the 1.67 patch and never fixed, I sometimes use the toddler skill books for bedtime stories, by having my sims read them to their toddlers for a half hour or so before putting them to bed. But I don't ever use the Jimmy Sprocket books either.

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