I am really annoyed with the the toddler release and and toddler stuff pack

If you have MCCC, try clicking on a mailbox, choose 'summon sim' then enter first and last name of toddler. When the toddler spawns on your lot, have an adult sim in your household introduce themselves.

All they really need to do is add the missing stuff to the toddler, I don't understand why toddlers don't pass by in the parks like children teens and adults, they don't have access to clubs, there is no thing in the friendship panel to invite household over like in the Sims 3. I have not tried putting toddler stuff in community lots to see if they would come by, but since they can't leave the house by themselves its highly unlikely they will spawn in a community lot as those things are just random. Also toddlers that are in npc households not in world freeze during aging as no one is physically there to help them age, they can't age until you help them blow out a cake, I don't know if that was fixed recently, but freezing aging toddlers keeps the game from aging the other household members.

It would be nice if some families occasionally brought their toddlers with them, but that introduces the whole constantly-crying-toddler problem that gives everyone bad moodlets. I agree that inviting over the whole household would be a great option to bring back.

There must be a bug in your game because my unplayed toddlers are aging up just fine. It's kind of a pain, but just have one of your parents (or whoever is planning the social event) go around to each house and meet the toddlers. You can check which households have toddlers by going into Manage Households. Once they've been introduced, they can be invited on a play date.

My toddler has a huge anger issue.

I have yet to even bother trying the toddler playdate thing - based on the continual hassle of having to add toddlers into the game.

TS4 was clearly meant to be a single-Sim game that just partied and did single-Sim stuff all day and all night.

Family-play is so incomplete in multiple ways.

Toddlers are technically an afterthought bolted onto the game.

It is so much hassle to have to edit the entire game to add toddlers, add beds and stuff for them in every NPC house. Then you worry that NPC households can even care for a toddler - do they even know what it is?

@plopppo2 Don't be so overwhelmingly optimistic. Toddlers were planned in the beginning — they simply ran out of time to complete them. Or didn't you read that memo from a couple of years back? ;) Now, I'm not sitting here telling you the game doesn't have problems. It does. I avoid 'play dates' because I never bothered with them in RL. However, in one of my game saves the main couple has toddler siblings. I've made certain both the husband and wife know their respective siblings, so that whenever they wish to hang out with the family, these wee ones can join in on the fun. Just had a birthday party and toddler brother was there, too. Mind you, his toddler nephew snoozed all the way through. But, hey. It was fun.

You could set up a rotation game save, and place two families with toddlers. Get the parent(s) to meet and from there have your play date. You might even make the second family have two toddlers. There are solutions to be had. o:) This post is meant in the most loving and supportive manner.

I am all about creating lots with sims that sole purpose is to populate my game. If it was me, I would create a residential lot with one adult and 7 toddlers. I would decorate the lot just like I would a public toddler lot (toys, jungle gym, etc. You don't need beds or a kitchen because you'll never be playing this lot, but maybe a grill and a bathroom would be convenient). I would have my Sim go to this lot with the 1 adult and 7 toddlers and hang out until they meet each one and then play together with the stuff on the lot. Then you know at least 7 toddlers and can have one heck of a play date at your Sim's house.

Yea.... I avoid play dates because I cant be bothered to introduce a parent to a bunch of toddlers, then toddlers stay in the relationship panel and clutter it all up. Unless they get culled randomly.
We really need an "invite household" option. Why not?
No seriously. Why is this not included? A patch around the release of the toddler pack would've been the perfect time to add "invite household"
Its been so long now, I doubt that'll be patched in, but I can hope maybe devs can surprise me.
Dont fix whats not broken, maxis. The option was there in past games and its a feature that shouldve made it in the game, its useful.

So I don't play with cheats, but I did get gold on the play date, and this is how I did it. I had my sim take the reward that would giver a high chance of twins, I set the lot so it would make twins, and i gave her the massage, and yes I had twins. That was step one. Next I invited a friend of hers over and asked her friend to move in, but instead of moving in I did a separated at birth deal. I took one of the twins, and moved it in with the friend. That was step 2. When the babe got to toddler, i went over and visited the friend twice, and from there was able to do the play date. The funny thing is after that I never moved the second kid back into my house I just kept the separated at birth story going.

I just send the adult on a quick tour of the households and do the obligatory "intro" to the various toddlers and then move onto the next household. From that point, it's easy to set up toddler playdates or even just invite the other toddlers over directly to meet the household toddlers. I also use a mod though that allows me to invite anyone for parties so I can easily get any group of sims (including toddlers) together for a house party without even doing the intros.

"Sid1701D9;c-16290131" wrote:
All they really need to do is add the missing stuff to the toddler, I don't understand why toddlers don't pass by in the parks like children teens and adults, they don't have access to clubs, there is no thing in the friendship panel to invite household over like in the Sims 3. I have not tried putting toddler stuff in community lots to see if they would come by, but since they can't leave the house by themselves its highly unlikely they will spawn in a community lot as those things are just random. Also toddlers that are in npc households not in world freeze during aging as no one is physically there to help them age, they can't age until you help them blow out a cake, I don't know if that was fixed recently, but freezing aging toddlers keeps the game from aging the other household members.

Wouldn't make much sense to have random toddlers roaming parks and community lots by themselves....they start out babbling and stumbling around...way too young to let them wander the neighborhoods by themselves, lol. Same goes for clubs....toddlers are too young to start up clubs. They could use a variation of what happens with pets where an adult sim brings their toddler with them when they do lot walk-bys. Given the movement limitations of toddlers until they level up that skill though, not sure that could work as smoothly as an adult with their pet who can keep up with them....same reason puppies and kittens don't go for walks in-game.

As for aging, sounds like a bug or mod conflict.....my toddlers in NPC households always age up on their own.