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
I'll admit I haven't gone through to see what everyone else has posted yet, because this thread is already 7 pages long. Just wanted to throw in my own two cents as the mom of a toddler:
- Toddler beds that are low to the floor so the kiddo can climb in/out themself. Also/alternatively, the ability to just click on the floor (as the toddler) and "sleep here" ... my kiddo NEVER sleeps in his bed and ALWAYS sleeps on the floor! If you want to make us have to buy something, maybe a blanket that can be placed on the floor for the toddler to sleep on?
- The ability to climb into the toy boxes, from TS3. My kid *loves* climbing into and sitting in / playing in boxes.
- Having a high chair that will "snap" to the table like regular chairs, so a sim sitting in an adjacent chair can feed the toddler while also feeding themself. (I do this all. the. time.) But also the ability for the toddler to feed themself, too. It's certainly nice that my toddler basically feeds himself these days, so I can focus of feeding myself / the baby.
- Changing tables! I was so bummed that changing tables were added so late into the life of TS3, and as downloadable content from the store, instead of being added in the "Generations" EP. None of this "throw in the air and spin around for a fresh diaper" business.
- Giving toddler a bath in the bath tub. Complete with splashing and trying to "swim" and making bubble hats.
- Sidewalk chalk
- Probably obvious, but the usual "learn to walk / talk / potty" toddler skills.
- Adorable animations of toddlers knee-crawling up the stairs (maybe an awkward both-feet-on-each-step walk after they've learned to walk?) and butt-scooting back down.
- Being able to cuddle up with the toddler and read them to sleep.
- A new swingset object: with a regular swing for children (and older) and a baby swing (you know, those little bucket seats with leg holes) for toddlers. Anyone child+ can push anyone on either type of swing.
- Crazy toddler dancing to the music: just spinning around and jumping up and down and waving arms around. Or, for the toddlers who haven't learned to walk, just bouncing up and down while sitting.
- Taking the child toys out of the toy boxes and chewing on them. Bonus points for leaving little slobber puddles on the floor whenever they put them down.
- Dressing up in costumes, like in Freeplay.
- If we get pets, the toddler playing in the pet's food / water dishes.
- The ability to climb up onto any chair / couch. Maybe not barstools, but couches, loveseats, living chairs, dining/desk chairs.
- Climbing up onto a bed and jumping around.
- A building blocks toy set
- Some kind of toddler art table, maybe a smaller version of the child one? Toddler can use finger paints or crayons, and the finished artwork can be put in inventory or on the walls
- Tantrums ... hey, this is supposed to be a life simulation, right? Tantrums because they can't reach something, or they bonked their head on the table, or they're hungry, or tired, or don't want to go to bed, or just because they're a toddler and that's what they do. "Hates children" sims can get angry moodlets from a nearby tantruming toddler, sticking their fingers in their ears and glaring at the toddler. Family oriented sims might autonomously try to calm down a tantruming toddler.
- A variety of "walker" toys: like the one from TS3, but maybe also toys that the toddler can hold onto and walk behind (we have a toy lawnmower like that, and also a ride-on-or-push car)
- Picking their nose and eating the boogers.
- Toddlers hugging other toddlers, and maybe playing pat-a-cake games (with other toddlers and with older sims, too)
- PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO IMAGINARY FRIEND DOLL.
- Toddler beds that are low to the floor so the kiddo can climb in/out themself. Also/alternatively, the ability to just click on the floor (as the toddler) and "sleep here" ... my kiddo NEVER sleeps in his bed and ALWAYS sleeps on the floor! If you want to make us have to buy something, maybe a blanket that can be placed on the floor for the toddler to sleep on?
- The ability to climb into the toy boxes, from TS3. My kid *loves* climbing into and sitting in / playing in boxes.
- Having a high chair that will "snap" to the table like regular chairs, so a sim sitting in an adjacent chair can feed the toddler while also feeding themself. (I do this all. the. time.) But also the ability for the toddler to feed themself, too. It's certainly nice that my toddler basically feeds himself these days, so I can focus of feeding myself / the baby.
- Changing tables! I was so bummed that changing tables were added so late into the life of TS3, and as downloadable content from the store, instead of being added in the "Generations" EP. None of this "throw in the air and spin around for a fresh diaper" business.
- Giving toddler a bath in the bath tub. Complete with splashing and trying to "swim" and making bubble hats.
- Sidewalk chalk
- Probably obvious, but the usual "learn to walk / talk / potty" toddler skills.
- Adorable animations of toddlers knee-crawling up the stairs (maybe an awkward both-feet-on-each-step walk after they've learned to walk?) and butt-scooting back down.
- Being able to cuddle up with the toddler and read them to sleep.
- A new swingset object: with a regular swing for children (and older) and a baby swing (you know, those little bucket seats with leg holes) for toddlers. Anyone child+ can push anyone on either type of swing.
- Crazy toddler dancing to the music: just spinning around and jumping up and down and waving arms around. Or, for the toddlers who haven't learned to walk, just bouncing up and down while sitting.
- Taking the child toys out of the toy boxes and chewing on them. Bonus points for leaving little slobber puddles on the floor whenever they put them down.
- Dressing up in costumes, like in Freeplay.
- If we get pets, the toddler playing in the pet's food / water dishes.
- The ability to climb up onto any chair / couch. Maybe not barstools, but couches, loveseats, living chairs, dining/desk chairs.
- Climbing up onto a bed and jumping around.
- A building blocks toy set
- Some kind of toddler art table, maybe a smaller version of the child one? Toddler can use finger paints or crayons, and the finished artwork can be put in inventory or on the walls
- Tantrums ... hey, this is supposed to be a life simulation, right? Tantrums because they can't reach something, or they bonked their head on the table, or they're hungry, or tired, or don't want to go to bed, or just because they're a toddler and that's what they do. "Hates children" sims can get angry moodlets from a nearby tantruming toddler, sticking their fingers in their ears and glaring at the toddler. Family oriented sims might autonomously try to calm down a tantruming toddler.
- A variety of "walker" toys: like the one from TS3, but maybe also toys that the toddler can hold onto and walk behind (we have a toy lawnmower like that, and also a ride-on-or-push car)
- Picking their nose and eating the boogers.
- Toddlers hugging other toddlers, and maybe playing pat-a-cake games (with other toddlers and with older sims, too)
- PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, NO IMAGINARY FRIEND DOLL.
