My Sims Eliza and Matthias have twins (a boy named Elijah and a girl named Nevaeh who are currently toddlers) I try to get them on a schedule, feeding, naps, play time and skill building. But since it's Sims, it never goes right because Sims are stupid.Example: The high chair. I try to feed Nevaeh and Elijah their food in the high chairs at the same time. But every time Matthias puts one of the toddlers in a high chair, Eliza appears and takes the toddler back out and places them on the floor before they even have a chance to eat, then I get notifications: "Neveah is hungry, feed her before she's taken away!" Well duh she's hungry because her mother won't let her eat. So my solution, I'll just put the toddlers' food on the floor then they can eat on the floor all uncivilized with the dog and cat, because apparently, high chairs are too civilized for them. This game isn't going to outsmart me. XD

Wise move :)Toddlers will climb onto a normal dining chair and can reach a counter to grab food. I place one of those panda chairs for them to sit on while they eat or direct them to sofa to watch TV/listen to tunes while they eat

Hmm, never thought to do that. Thanks for the heads up.

High Chairs are garbage in TS4....sadly. There are mods that prevent that problem with kids being taken out by a different sim before you can get the food in front of them. What I found works just as well and doesn't require a mod is to have someone grab a serving of food and use live-drag to put it on the High chair BEFORE you put the toddler in. That way they can get straight to eating once seated and don't call out for someone else to take them out.But honestly, at the end of the day it's all far too much hassle for me to bother and I do the same as what @ModerateOsprey said...I let them sit on something else to eat. My own preferences is the little toadstool-looking stools rather than the panda chair though. Just because I find them cute. Plus, doing it this way lets them be self sufficient because toddlers are perfectly capable of grabbing their own serving of food. And, as an added benefit, they don't mash their food and make a mess when not in a high chair.

I used the highchair only a few times at first. I got so frustrated, then I discovered that toddlers will use living chairs and sofas, and get their own plates of food... I never looked back, never used the highchair again!

I must admit I still love using highchairs, but I wouldn't If I were playing Vanilla.

Forget the high chairs then......

ignominiusrex
3 years ago
So true that in sims4 high chairs are horrible. I've had that a few times with sims 3 too, and my answer is in sims4, never use highchairs, just let them grab a ate from the counter and eat it on the couch.

In sims 3 its not as easy because all you can feed them from the floor is a bottle, which doesn't fill their hunger. So I cheat up their needs and move on.

Ugh, highchairs amiright??
invisiblgirl
3 years ago
"Admiral8Q;c-18034132" wrote:
"GalacticGal;c-18033913" wrote:

You don't have to put the food on the floor. Leave it on the kitchen counter or even on a table. The Toddlers have a miraculous ability to reach.

I can confirm this. In a maximum wall height house, a toddler managed to grab food from a shelf (About 4 or 5 meters up?) that someone autonomously left on a shelf that was barely below the ceiling. :D

(This is why I love autonomy on most of the time, notice some interesting and amusing things that wouldn't otherwise) ;)

"Stormkeep;c-18033931" wrote:
Speaking of toddlers and their miraculous ability to reach, yesterday while playing I saw one of my child sims put down a little step stool to get something off of a counter. Is that something new or is it just something I've somehow missed noticing before?

Interesting, I've never seen that before. Maybe it is something new. I'll watch for it.

Not only can they get food from high counters, they've put the empty dishes on top of the tall desks (and other places - sometimes, I've truly had to scour the house for their dishes).
LatinaBunny
New Spectator
3 years ago
"Stormkeep;c-18033931" wrote:
Speaking of toddlers and their miraculous ability to reach, yesterday while playing I saw one of my child sims put down a little step stool to get something off of a counter. Is that something new or is it just something I've somehow missed noticing before?

I’ve seen one of my child sims doing that. I think that’s always been around, but my child sims don’t usually need to do it much.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
3 years ago
High chairs drive me up the wall in this game. I have autonomy off, but the high chair is the single most resistant objects against that. I had to use a high chair for a story scene today and the thing was kind enough to remind me again why I hate it:

Put toddler into high chair - toddler will throw a tantrum after a while and a nearby sim will take them out of it, disregarding the still ongoing family meal situation in addition to disregarding my free will settings
Give toddler food in chair - toddler might start playing with it and then a nearby parent will autonomously scold them (not cute)
Try to use the "grab serving for " - the sim will complain about routing, in the end the foods to get dragged over there manually

In actual gameplay I do the same as @elanorbreton , only not with dining chair looking seating, but the many cute cushions and teddy bear armchairs that are in the game.

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