@Stitchluver It's okay, like I've said in reply to other peoples comments the challenge is yours and you can decide to do what you want with it :) My rules are more guidelines that I suggest you follow, so you can change them if you want as well as add bits in. I'm personally not going to add in child support to the rules as after playing the first gen myself I found that there wasn't that much of a struggle for money when my sim sold her paintings or wrote books and that it was fairly easy to survive and afford some - not many but some - luxuries so giving her extra money when the idea for that generation is that she struggles to even pay the bills would make the generation too easy. But like I said before, you can add child support if you want.
However, I do have to take note that if you are going to add child support, your attempt at the challenge is going to be easier than others that are playing the challenge so I'm not sure whether it would be fair to allow your score to go on the leader board... although I could deduct some points at the end.
After reading the rules again, I've remembered what I meant by the maxing skills point and it is that the points are given if the heir for that generation maxes a skill and only that sim, so for this I'm going to say that points for maxing a child skill shouldn't be counted. As they are points which add up to your final score which will go on the leader board, it wouldn't really be fair to allow those points when others won't have counted them as it gives an unfair advantage.
Sorry for the essay LoL, I'm going to reword the thingy now so I make it clearer :)