Do you max out the toddler skills or let them have fun?

i haven't had the chance to play toddlers for a while but I usually don't have the time to max out a toddlers skills with other sims in my household and such unless it's the only thing i put myself into. I just do what i can and let them age up with whatever they end up with.

I play too many families on rotation to focus much on each toddler. They build skills autonomously when the house is active, but not at all when I play the other houses. So, I try to make sure they have some toys, and I direct them to use them when I'm stopping by. Guess their skills are 1-3 when I age them up.

Get rid of the high chair, and it's hard to avoid getting all the skills to five, usually a day before they age up in a normal lifespan. But, my toddlers are parented to death - I have them do an hour of physical activity (dancing, sliding or just running about) while the mother takes care of her needs, but otherwise, she's usually teaching the toddler something. (BTW, teaching manners or please and thank-you is a great way to build communication skill, at least until the toddler gets sick of it.)

Nearly everything they can do builds one of the skills, so even if the mother is busy, the toddler can play with blocks or toys to have fun and learn at the same time.

I usually try to get their skills up to 5, but fail. In the end it's most likely communication and imagination which are maxed out, thinking and movement at 4...
sometimes i just say "f it" and let them have fun, but I do want successful kids because of my legacy founder's aspiration :>

They max them out by themselves because I play with aging off and they stay in the toddler stage for quiet a long time.

Both really. I let them have fun, but they typically end up getting their skills by themselves to 5 WAY before they age out anyway (which I typically end up doing for them when they have 10 days left). I play on long.

Both actually. I play on long life, so there's no real hurry to max out the skills. I've found that once their needs are taken care of, if you just leave them alone, they'll play and/or socialize & build their skills on their own. When they get to about 7 days from aging up, that's when I check to see what skills they haven't maxed yet, and focus on those (usually thinking since that one tends to require some effort). But most of the time they're usually maxed by the time they reach 14 days, then they just have fun the rest of the time.

My toddlers seem to skill up in daily life. I do use custom life spans. I haven't aged up many toddlers without maxed skills. The few that didn't max them all were probably level 4 in one.

For the most part I let them have fun and don't worry too much about the skills. I find the bonus traits you get for maxing skills as a toddler makes the game a bit easier and I try to make the game as challenging as possible (just my personal preference). There is the odd toddler I'll skill to level 3 if I have plans for them to be a super intelligent Sim - but that is very rare.

I try to make my toddlers and kids have a 'natural' upbringing, so they get taught some stuff as you would irl but I don't push them to learn as much as possible. I like to see them playing plenty of the time or babbling away and having fun.