Imagine My Surprise . . .

GalacticGal  I wouldn’t bother trying to put them to bed if you’re just going to leave the lot. Sims don’t continue doing what you told them after you leave - if you set one to painting, or tending the garden, or doing homework, then leave the lot, that task won’t be completed when you return and likely not even in progress. If you sent a Sim to bed, they’re unlikely to still be sleeping. The same is true for all ages. If you return to a lot after letting time pass, the game will just place whatever Sims are there around the home doing “logical” activities they might do. For babies the options are limited, but lying in the floor or listening to music are certainly possibilities.

I hate returning home during night hours if there are sims left on the lot. You'd think the game would be programmed to recognise the time and have the sims sleeping in bed, cribs etc with an appropriate amount of sleep left to fill. But I guess the developers never thought of that. These days, if I travel during late hours I tend to take the whole household otherwise it's just a pain in the neck when you get home again.

Its time to go for a walk when you start screaming at the game. I've been there. 😂

I just turn the game off at that point. LOL

Normally speaking, the Sim babies are generally in their cribs after the parents go out, just where they were left. I have no idea why they magically were moved. The parents weren't even out for very long. It was weird.

It was more the fact that Jamison was left lying on a pile of trash on the floor . . .  Gross. And very surprising that his twin, Andrew was busy rocking out downstairs in the office.  LOL Now, that was cute, at least.

Generally I’ve found they’ll return from daycare to the same place they left if they were sent to daycare because the parents were in a rabbit hole, and the lot is never reloaded. But if the parents leave the lot and I go with them, all bets are off - when the lot reloads, the kids will be somewhere random.

Ah, that explains it, then. Thank you.

Oh, I know. I have had a Sim from family A go to visit another Sim in family B, only to find out the school-aged kids are home, and so are the parents, who should be at work . . . . That's why I was so excited to find my two families' kids at school when I followed the first family there. It was way cool, and something I always wanted but never, ever happened prior to this one instance.