Ideas at a Glance for Toddlers
So as an aside from the family play thread chat I wanted to offer people a place to suggest their ideas for a perfect scenarios for toddlers in TS4 in a bite size format as suggested by a couple of us...
Forum Discussion
My thoughts:
- I would love toddlers to learn to walk largely on their own, like real toddlers do, but also to be able to be encouraged by adults. To pull themselves up on furniture and "cruise" on it, to fall down on their cute little behinds, and to eventually get the hang of it. I wanted this all through Sims 3.
- I would like sippy cups, not bottles, please!
- Baths would be lovely :)
- Wading pools would be lovely :)
- Simlish babble would be cool - that bit of toddler lisp and toddler skipped words type thing. With the choice of first words leaning to Simlish for Mommy and Daddy.
- Finger painting :)
- Tantrums!
- I see a lot of people mention playing with other toddlers, but that actually seems odd to me. More like taking the toy from the other toddler.
- Alien Toddlers please!
- When we get pets (when, I assume!), if they had fun Toddler-specific interactions - especially dogs, who might be more or less tolerant of toddler treatment - that would be a selling point for pets for me (I need selling points for pets, they aren't an obvious purchase for me)
- Curiosity, which can look like "getting into trouble"
- Fail states for toys: if you play with blocks, say, what happens when they fall down?
- Maybe this could be a good time to introduce babysitters/nannies, and also to add a "randomization" option for Traits? Sometimes I want to see what the game would roll for me if I weren't at that household
- No Ambitions: Toddlers can't think into the future.
- Lots of clothes choices, please!
- Dimply pudgy toddler bits
Mostly I want them to be adorable, to have tantrums and curiosity, and to do more learning on their own through trial and error and curiosity, so they feel more like little individuals and less like pets.
- I would love toddlers to learn to walk largely on their own, like real toddlers do, but also to be able to be encouraged by adults. To pull themselves up on furniture and "cruise" on it, to fall down on their cute little behinds, and to eventually get the hang of it. I wanted this all through Sims 3.
- I would like sippy cups, not bottles, please!
- Baths would be lovely :)
- Wading pools would be lovely :)
- Simlish babble would be cool - that bit of toddler lisp and toddler skipped words type thing. With the choice of first words leaning to Simlish for Mommy and Daddy.
- Finger painting :)
- Tantrums!
- I see a lot of people mention playing with other toddlers, but that actually seems odd to me. More like taking the toy from the other toddler.
- Alien Toddlers please!
- When we get pets (when, I assume!), if they had fun Toddler-specific interactions - especially dogs, who might be more or less tolerant of toddler treatment - that would be a selling point for pets for me (I need selling points for pets, they aren't an obvious purchase for me)
- Curiosity, which can look like "getting into trouble"
- Fail states for toys: if you play with blocks, say, what happens when they fall down?
- Maybe this could be a good time to introduce babysitters/nannies, and also to add a "randomization" option for Traits? Sometimes I want to see what the game would roll for me if I weren't at that household
- No Ambitions: Toddlers can't think into the future.
- Lots of clothes choices, please!
- Dimply pudgy toddler bits
Mostly I want them to be adorable, to have tantrums and curiosity, and to do more learning on their own through trial and error and curiosity, so they feel more like little individuals and less like pets.
