Re: Toddlers very sad for 2 days for nothing?!

@Lailantieit is a known fact that whenever a sim dies on a lot (household, bar, park etc) the mood of every sim in that place will be influenced by the event. As I stated in my earlier post, mood influencing objects can push these sad emotions further back so the sad emotions will not have such a strong influence.
As you have experienced with your toddlers. This can be a sim-life changing event.

I never used potions on toddlers so I won't be able to state that they can or can not take them. I thought that adult sims could always give toddler sims food and drinks from their inventory. I know that toddlers themselves can't buy any rewards and that their aspiration points only come available when they age up to kids. But i think that an adult or even a kid can give a toddler something to eat or to drink. The toddler will, most of the time, happily take it. I think the option would have been to let an adult buy this potion and feed it to the toddler.
I hope this option is possible and will prevent such a behavior in the future.
I will gladly test this option in one of my saves.

If or when the behavior and traits of the now teenagers, you play at this moment bothers you or hinders you to play the game, you can always try to cheat these traits away.

Have fun playing. 😉

@TrismagistosThank you for your reply 🙂 If an adult buys the potion and gives it to the toddler to drink, the toddler can't drink it. Most possibly toddlers can only drink from toddler bottles ☹️

Unfortunately what I've noticed even if they didn't witness it they still become sad because everyone else is. But sims tend to recycle the moods if they gain a hurt sentiment because they are close to the others in the house. Which is most likely which would keep them sad for two days. Because they are feeling hurt their family are sad of the death but they should offer some sort of reward store purchase to clear those for toddlers. But since toddlers were never part of the original base game their still working on it.

@Lailantie , in addition to what @Trismagistos  suggested, do you happen to use any Mods/CC? 🤔 If you don't, are you on a console, or on a PC or Mac.  🤔 Sometimes that could make a difference.

Also, do you happen to have the Nifty Knitting SP and if so do the children who are always tired and irritable have a knitting skill of 3 or more? 🤔.  It might be unrelated to your problem, but I have had that happen to a whole household of Sims who had more than 3 in the knitting skill.  I haven't used knitting much since then (I was too busy discovering other packs) but I don't remember them mentioning fixing this in any of the patch notes. 🤔😞
Here is the Bug Report on this topic.  [NEEDS SAVES] [NKSP] Energy Bar slow to fill after Sim begins knitting skill - Answer HQ (ea.com)

I do find it odd that the toddlers reacted more strongly to the deaths than the older Sims that knew the deceased Sim, but I haven't had someone die in a toddler's house in a while. 🤨

@PugLove888 @EloquentSickness @Trismagistos  Thank you all for your replies.

I just wanted to point out that I was upset by the imbalance of how the grief was distributed in this family when that guy died in the living room while the toddlers were sleeping and they were in no way related to that guy.

I understand that everyone in the family gets affected. I just don't understand why the sleeping toddlers would get 2 days, and the others witnessing it got 11 hours.

It was definitely the grief symbol the toddlers had, dark blue with something like a windmill on it, the symbol sims have when they mourn the loss of a loved one. In the beginning there was no sentiment involved.

The sentiments came as a result of the toddlers crying for two days.

I do have nifty knitting, but none of my kids are knitting. They don't have time for something like that. I try to get them an A grade at school so I can age them up as soon as possible (100 babies rules) so they can sooner grow up and leave the household.

I am using mods, but no mods which affect the gameplay in a way that relationships would change or toddlers would get more grief than others.