Small things I want for sim children
I would really like sim children to be able to use the easel to create paintings. They were able to in sims 2 and 3. I also want them to be able to play the guitar and piano. More instruments in gener...
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@Elliandre I liked your suggestions and wanted to elaborate on them because a lot of them are in Sims3.
Karate was a Sims3 thing but I am not sure if kids could do it or not because I never tried it family-style.
In Sims4 I found it impossible to earn a certain Scout Badge (Keeping Fit or something) because none of the exercise activities Sim kids could do, seemed to count. So I researched it, it was a known bug, and a mod to let kids jog, did the trick, on both my teen and kid Scouts (neither of whom could get any points for pushups or anything else, so only jogging would do it)
Horseback riding can't happen in a game without horses, so again, that's a Sims 3 thing (along with a lot of afterschool clubs and classes, instead of only having the choice of Scouts or Drama Club.
And if Drama Club ever gives Sims4 kids any Acting skill for all the time they put in, I never saw it so I stopped trying with that.
For science experiments, you have the School Projects. The Baking Soda Volcano, the model solar system, and so on, and they can do them with a parent or other adult, or independently.
Hopscotch is also in Sims3, as are seesaws and slides, and play/climbing gyms (rather than just monkey bars), and even an assortment of kids' treehouse/clubhouse options that are really cool (kids can sleep in them, and adults can woohoo in them but not while kids are present obviously)
Lego Building Block table in Sims3 can be used by kids, whereas in Sims4, the only object similar to that can only be used by toddlers according to the description. Very sad, because in Sims3, a parent can play legos with their kid.
And I do seem to recall Sims3 kids playing tag, also.
I got around a little bit of Sims 4 kids not being allowed to do anything, almost, except go to school, by a mod called Kids Can, which lets them load the washing machine and turn it on, and wash dishes at the sink, that sort of thing.
Sims 3 babies and toddlers can also be pushed around town or countryside in a stroller, babies can use a baby swing, and toddlers can ride a spring toy outside, play in a sandbox, etc.
Sorry to sound like an ad for Sims3 but it is where a lot of the options people are listing, already exist.
It's not all roses in Sims3 though: imaginary friends are horrible demons that are always evil or insane once you get to know them, but can't be deleted or they corrupt your game; curfews are enforced whether parents want that or not so that a teen working a night job at the graveyard will get brought home by police and automatically grounded, meaning he can't go to school the next day but then he gets grounded again for not going to school so he can never stop being grounded, and walks with a Vlad-like creep-sneak walk for the rest of his life, sometimes, when it glitches and doesn't go away once he ages up to adult.
Most of what I want for kids in Sims4, there is an easy mod for. It would be nice if adult sims could rock toddler or kid sims on their laps in a rocking chair, and read to them in it. Also babies should be able to be rocked in the rocking chair.
Karate was a Sims3 thing but I am not sure if kids could do it or not because I never tried it family-style.
In Sims4 I found it impossible to earn a certain Scout Badge (Keeping Fit or something) because none of the exercise activities Sim kids could do, seemed to count. So I researched it, it was a known bug, and a mod to let kids jog, did the trick, on both my teen and kid Scouts (neither of whom could get any points for pushups or anything else, so only jogging would do it)
Horseback riding can't happen in a game without horses, so again, that's a Sims 3 thing (along with a lot of afterschool clubs and classes, instead of only having the choice of Scouts or Drama Club.
And if Drama Club ever gives Sims4 kids any Acting skill for all the time they put in, I never saw it so I stopped trying with that.
For science experiments, you have the School Projects. The Baking Soda Volcano, the model solar system, and so on, and they can do them with a parent or other adult, or independently.
Hopscotch is also in Sims3, as are seesaws and slides, and play/climbing gyms (rather than just monkey bars), and even an assortment of kids' treehouse/clubhouse options that are really cool (kids can sleep in them, and adults can woohoo in them but not while kids are present obviously)
Lego Building Block table in Sims3 can be used by kids, whereas in Sims4, the only object similar to that can only be used by toddlers according to the description. Very sad, because in Sims3, a parent can play legos with their kid.
And I do seem to recall Sims3 kids playing tag, also.
I got around a little bit of Sims 4 kids not being allowed to do anything, almost, except go to school, by a mod called Kids Can, which lets them load the washing machine and turn it on, and wash dishes at the sink, that sort of thing.
Sims 3 babies and toddlers can also be pushed around town or countryside in a stroller, babies can use a baby swing, and toddlers can ride a spring toy outside, play in a sandbox, etc.
Sorry to sound like an ad for Sims3 but it is where a lot of the options people are listing, already exist.
It's not all roses in Sims3 though: imaginary friends are horrible demons that are always evil or insane once you get to know them, but can't be deleted or they corrupt your game; curfews are enforced whether parents want that or not so that a teen working a night job at the graveyard will get brought home by police and automatically grounded, meaning he can't go to school the next day but then he gets grounded again for not going to school so he can never stop being grounded, and walks with a Vlad-like creep-sneak walk for the rest of his life, sometimes, when it glitches and doesn't go away once he ages up to adult.
Most of what I want for kids in Sims4, there is an easy mod for. It would be nice if adult sims could rock toddler or kid sims on their laps in a rocking chair, and read to them in it. Also babies should be able to be rocked in the rocking chair.
