She is OUT of her mind!

"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.

My sims have rolled the wish to have ten kids a number of times, and at least twice (that I can remember), the sim with the wish didn't have the Family Oriented trait or anything else that would encourage that wish. I think it's just random once a parent already has six kids.

And I've let them made them have ten kids in many saves. It's not that hard, once you get the hang of it, even without the kind of cheaty premium store items. As many have mentioned already, teenagers can help out, and of course a family oriented sim will teach toddlers their skills significantly faster than other sims. It also helps to max the toddler's mood first—like other sims, they learn much more quickly when they're in a good mood. Put on their favorite music, change their outfit, and tickle them half a dozen times, and they can be taught to walk or talk in 2:15. (Yes, I've timed it. Surprised?)

Also, I've seen the wish for grandkids go up to 20. That one appears much more predictably. A parent sees a kid get married and may wish for a grandchild. ("Have a grandchild" shows regardless of how many the prospective grandparent already has.) When the next grandkid is born—it doesn't have to be the child of the one who just got married—the grandparent may roll a wish to have x grandkids, x being the next step up from whatever number they already have. So a grandparent whose 11th grandchild was just born could easily wish for twenty. As for whether that's a good idea... well, from what I hear, the best part of being a grandparent is that you get to give the screaming toddlers back when you're done.

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).

@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.

@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. :)

"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.

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.