Adult Sims are less likely to autonomously watch Kids Network if Toddlers/Children/Teens aren't nearby.
Fixed in Patch 1.58.63
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? This only started happening to me when there was a toddler in the household, so create a family with at least one Sim young adult and older and at least one toddler, then make sure there is a TV in the house. Just let the Sims do their thing for a while.
What happens when the bug occurs? Young adult and older Sims autonomously watch the kids' channel, making themselves bored in the process. The Sims in question do not have the Childish trait.
What do you expect to see? I wouldn't think that non-childish Sims should be able to autonomously watch the kids' channel.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
For some reason, ever since two young adult Sims of mine had their baby grow into a toddler, they've been autonomously watching the kids' channel. None of them have the Childish trait. This gets especially annoying because they keep giving that bored moodlet to themselves when they do this. At first, I thought that maybe the toddler had watched TV while I wasn't looking and the kids' channel was set as the current channel as a result, so I had one of the adults change the channel. Sure enough, though, I was watching the toddler who had not gone anywhere near the TV since I had one of the adults changed the channel, and one of them was watching the kids' channel again!
Oh! I had no idea that this was already a known issue. Gonna go ahead and give it a me too.
I can confirm that while this was in fact occurring with a toddler in the house, they were not inviting the toddler to watch TV with them, nor was the toddler already watching TV. They were watching the kids' channel all on their own! The toddler wasn't even in the same room.
