My sim malfunctioning as a parent.

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Hello, I decided to let my ancient spellcaster have a child. When she did have this child, I don’t know how else to describe this other than malfunctioning. I would tell her to bathe the child, for instance and she would stand there smiling like a zombie and do nothing. After a couple of seconds my request would just disappear. I would have to ask over and over and she would just keep standing there smiling doing nothing. Not until I played as the child and said give me a bath did she ever move.

I also never could find the option to show flashcards. I had her take the child to the park and she wandered off trying to chat up some guy while I was having the child walk around and ask what’s this, what’s this, and try to go to the grandfather who also had to go with us. This is very unsatisfying gameplay. There’s no way I would’ve let my young son just wander off by himself while I try to check some guy out.

it occurs to me that another fun activity I had with my son when he was little, was showing him where his nose, eyes, ears, etc. were. It seemed to me that there wasn’t any real parenting on my sims part. Basically me just playing as the toddler having a crawl around, and move around and stuff. The mother wasn’t actually parenting.

it was very frustrating and not fun. Whatever happened to the flashcards, teaching them to walk and talk? Does none of the staff at EA have children?

pipmenace · Answer

@spiritedtreasure The parent won't necessarily have anything else in their queue beyond what you told them. But the infant's queue might have "watch" or "fuss" or "try to go night night" etc. and your parent Sim wanting to interact with them doesn't auto-cancel these things. They'll stand frozen waiting for the infant to finish and/or the action will time out and cancel because the infant wasn't "free" to accept it. That's why it works when you play as the infant - you can cancel the action to cry because they're hungry and replace it with be fed. Whereas the parent trying to queue feed while the infant's crying just has to wait until they finish (or until you switch to the infant to cancel).

Growing together does have some things you can teach the infant - if you got them all the way to able to crawl while having Growing Together installed, then you certainly found that and I congratulate you! - but the other actions you asked about (flashcards and learning to walk) are only available after they become a toddler.

Congrats on your young spellcaster! And good luck with future Sim infants... they are definitely a lot of work.

pipmenace · Answer

@spiritedtreasure&nbsp; Just to clarify - is the kid currently&nbsp;walking or crawling? I ask because you mentioned both.If they’re still crawling, it sounds like they’re in the infant life stage. You can try foods with them in a high chair, but won’t be able to use flash cards or teach them things like shapes/walking/potty/basic needs until they age up to toddler. They can be bottle fed or breastfed, and sleep in a crib.If they’re walking, then that sounds like they should be in the toddler stage, and you should have the various teaching options. They’d sleep in a toddler bed rather than a crib, and be a little easier to care for.If still an infant, that would also explain your issues with the parent “malfunctioning” until you played as the infant. In my opinion, the autonomous “check infant” action is a bit overpowered and the logic of what infant actions can and can’t be canceled by the parent is less than ideal:&nbsp;https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Check-infant-toddler-interrupts-all-attempts-to-care-for/m-p/12393705#M242912

spiritedtreasure · Answer

I aged the baby up immediately, because when they are in a bassinet they are an object. After they were a baby, she put her on the floor and I clicked on the baby and had her crawling around instead of scooting. She was actually crawling. Then when she got as many milestones as I wanted, I aged her up again into a toddler. I believe this was happening when she was crawling around. She’s grown now of course. But the problem is, there was no pick up baby or check baby or other thing in her list of stuff to do there was just nothing. I don’t have the PlayStation on at the moment, but I believe I do have growing together. I bought it in the Christmas sale.

Maybe the pack was the problem I don’t know. I don’t know if I have parenthood or not, I don’t think so. And I do think I have growing together though. It was on sale. I don’t normally play with infants, but I wanted my ancient spellcaster to have a baby. The baby is also an ancient spellcaster.

edit: I never bought a high chair.

jpkarlsen · Answer

@spiritedtreasure&nbsp;Move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game in a new save.If it works now check for updates to your Mods and CC. Add it back a little at a time while testing until you have found all that are broken.

spiritedtreasure · Answer

There are no mods on the playstation. I’m not sure I can move files around either. Pretty sure it’s closed system.&nbsp;Thanks though.

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