Re: How do you trigger Full Parental Mode?

@DMDragonCT  Thank you so much for the help.  I really appreciate it.

I think I know why it triggered then.  What actually happened was dad was mentoring one boy on the pipe organ while one of the other boys was playing video games on the TV and game console 3 or 4 tiles away in the same room.  Dad kept quitting mentoring and kept trying to join the video game and I kept canceling and sending him back to mentor.  It was so bad that I finally had the second boy quit the video game and go play chess because dad wouldn't stop quitting mentoring and it had to have been more that 5 times that it happened.  

As to the other.  Thank you for the compliment.  Much appreciated.  I've been here since I started playing Sims 4 which was very shortly after it was released in 2014.  Same at the main site.  Though I only came here when I had a problem and pretty much just lurked for most of that time.  But I have a problem in my game right now that started back late last year and I've been trying to find a solution for which I still haven't and so I came back here and have been systematically going though posts here hoping to find some clue on how to fix it.  One thing I do have to say is that there are a lot of posts here, wow.  To be honest, I'm sort of haunting the place recently and spent more time here than playing the game.  I have an idea that it's going to take what is essentially a nuclear option to fix it and I really don't want to mess up a nearly 3 year old save that I have put 1,000s of hours into and start over again if I can avoid it.  

While doing that, I came across some posts that hadn't been answered about some of the same problems I have had over the years and figured out or found a solution for and already fixed in my game and said to myself that "I know how to fix that" and so I made my first posts here with a bit of trepidation I admit, and have continued doing so when I think I can help somebody and I feel more confident and like doing it now that I finally figured out how to do it.  I only figured out how to edit my own posts just last week believe it or not.  Didn't ever think to try to click on the 3 little dots until I happened to mouse over them and the menu popped up.  Thought they were just part of the site graphics.  And there are some things about the site that I am still wondering about.  

So thank you for the candor and the info about the XP system.  That is much appreciated because I've never been on a site that has anything like it and have been wondering how I was supposed to use XP.  And I really haven't figured out who I should ask about it.  I read all the info that's available but that really didn't tell me much about what I call the "site etiquette" i.e. how things really work, the unwritten rules so to speak.  I've been giving them to posts I found useful or told me things I didn't know and to anyone who replied to mine or mentioned me and I have noticed the balance between what I'd been giving vs getting was a bit off already and have been trying to give more than I have earlier now that I think I'm getting the hang of things.  But to be honest, I don't really care about badges and getting XP myself.  I don't post for that reason.  It's because I want to help, where and when I can, when I know, or in some cases, think I know (been wrong a few times if you look at some my posts) that I can help other players, particularly the folks that are just starting to play the game.  But I do want to be polite and not offend people or get them upset at me.  So I want the moderators or major players here to tell me when I do something wrong or get in the way.  And if I post something that is absolutely wrong, correct me.  I do not mind that at all if done in a positive way without taking my head off.  I do want to be welcome here.  

BTW, just how do you look up who has given you XP?  The directions said to open the message page and you could get a list of all who have given XP or either a post of the thread.  I can't figure out how.  I do get the emails but I'd like to look and see a list here rather than looking in my email at each one individually.  I have seen a notice that I got kudos in a little pop up while I'm here but otherwise I can't tell who is doing it and I would like to know if there is someway to thank them. 

And I think I've figured this out now, but is the site time set on GMT?

Anyway, @DMDragonCT thank you for replying to my questions and being candid with me.  It is truly appreciated.