My couple wants to go on a date, they have 1 child (child, not baby). I'm assuming that I can't leave the child home alone, but can't figure out how to get a babysitter for the child. Using the phone I checked 'services' but there was no option to hire a babysitter -which in my opinion is stupid and unrealistic. Anyway.. was wondering how do I get a babysitter? Is it the same when a couple has a baby and the child is automatically warped into daycare? or when the couple goes on their date a babysitter automatically shows up? Or in this game, children can stay home alone?

I think children can stay home alone now.

you dont :x children stay home alone and babies get warped to daycare

You can leave children alone. Just pretend it's 1970 and your kid isn't 7 anymore. ;)

I actually miss the babysitter option.

"Rubycube86;12650083" wrote:Children can stay home alone? That seems really bad and inappropriate to me. They've been able to do it since TS3.

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MySweetMelissa
11 years ago
I think children can stay home alone now.
Nehnn
11 years ago
you dont :x
children stay home alone and babies get warped to daycare
luthienrising
Hero+
11 years ago
You can leave children alone. Just pretend it's 1970 and your kid isn't 7 anymore. ;)
shadowcat85
11 years ago
There is no babysitter, your sim baby is teleported to daycare. I think at child stage they can stay home alone, in one of my sim families after she got a promotion the mother got off work like 2 or 3 hours after sim school got out and the child was fine staying on the lot alone.
joannloves
11 years ago
Wow, fast response. Thank you!
nerdyg1rl550
New Traveler
11 years ago
I actually miss the babysitter option.
CBO2018
11 years ago
"Rubycube86;12650083" wrote:
Children can stay home alone? That seems really bad and inappropriate to me.

They've been able to do it since TS3.
Nehnn
11 years ago
wellllll i was 10 when i could stay home alone so it's not that bad .. i guess
nanashisims
New Ace
11 years ago
It breaks my heart to hear this. I totally hate-loved the useless nanny who ignored the kids and watched TV the whole time. She was so real, because I had a useless nanny when I was a kid.
Jimboola11
11 years ago
Damn, wish I had known. I had a sim leave her job to care for the kid. That said the babysitter in TS3 was awful. Always come back to find the kids plumbob on red or orange with the babysitter eating ice-cream...