Sims 4 disable woo hoo option
I bought the sims 4 for myself after playing the sims 2 and 3 a long time ago. It is a great game overall but I have 2 young daughters age 8 and 6 that want to play. I would love to let them play the...
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Wouldn't this be a rather good and safe way to give them education about content they might come across anyway in the coming years? If they are, or will be, users of games, phones, tablets etc. or have friends who are, they are extremely unlikely to reach ten without getting some, potentially false, information.
It is not, in itself, inappropriate to children to hear how babies happen, or that adults may sometimes want to give each other intimate love.
If used as an appropriate conversation opener, this can be a tool to help the children recognize what they see are adult themes and to recognize things that might not be appropriate for children to see or experience in real life.
The animations themselves are very tame, it is not like they are going to see the deed itself.
What @Strangelovekraft said. I think this would be a great opportunity to discuss under what circumstances your family considers “Woohoo” to be appropriate, and to also add that the Sims has perfect birth control but humans don’t! so it’s even more important in real life that you think about whether it’s appropriate because there might be consequences.
(My mother explained the where babies come from in a highly Disney-fied manner when my sister and I were about that age… lots of references to “your husband” in that explanation… She did it because she heard on TV that people were telling shockingly young kids misinformation and she wanted us to have the facts and what she considered appropriate.)
Back in my day when I was a little girl, I can vouch for "woohooing" using my Barbie and Ken dolls, had no idea of exactly what they were doing in detail but I knew they were getting it on together and that it made babies (I also had smaller dolls I would use as babies and children for them).
From a very young age if I remember rightly. This stuff is normal for children to understand on some level and it isn't weird at all.
The woohooing action in SIMs 4 is all under the sheets. My Barbie and Ken dolls got inelegantly slammed together for their "woohoo". I think it's pretty much the same level of reveal, so you're 100% safe leaving this stuff in the game for them. You probably won't even need to explain it to them for a few more years yet. Just don't get weird about it, for their sakes.
