Nightgypsy One of the things I tried to stop multiple sims from competing over my infant was to lock the door to the kid's room for everyone but the Nanny. That worked pretty well, but only when the infant stays in her room. Once the kid starts crawling around, I'll need to enlarge her space! The other thing that helps is to have the infant request a specific sim for care. But you have to be quick before everyone starts rushing over. It's madness! I just love sim Free Will. 😆
Oh, and the game's generated service sims. Good grief! Here's the Nanny who showed up today. He may be a Free Spirit and good for him, but Reliable isn't the first thing you think when you meet him. On top of that, he argued with my sim Cara when she tried to Get to Know him. I wanted to send him packing right then and there, but I gave him a chance. 🤨
Nanny Extraordinaire: "Don't worry, I'm a trained professional. Trust me."
I love that your spirit has not been crushed :) I am going to have to ponder the locking in room thing. I only have two households that have had children so far and those children had their own suites and the parents love to tummy time and spent good time with them. I had the door to the rest of the house child proofed much like your idea. Never occurred to me to enclose their cribs in a room with a door. Only problem I see there for me is I love the parents putting the infants to bed, soothing them to sleep then kissing them goodnight and then they play a lullaby. If I did the lock door method it would have to be to only allow the butler because the parents work. Great idea to avoid the madness but ugh. Why does it have to be so hard lol. I love their freewill to a point too. I just wish the powers that be would throw in a bucket of common sense to their dna. As for game nannies. Nope. Never again. I am sure you read what happened to me the last time and I promise it was much worse than it sounded. My new method after that was that one parent had to quit their job and take care of the kid or kids. Later they can return to work in their same rank and position so no biggie. They don't have to work but I consider their jobs daycare for adults so I don't have to micromanage them 24 hours a day. Yep, for real hehe. Managing all of this with my poorer families in small houses will probably prove to be a nightmare. Or perhaps it will be less of one. Not going to be doing it for a while though because it hasn't been that long that my main family had three kids I took from infant to young adult and then did college. Now I am doing more relaxing things and stuff I have never done before. my poor sim has never even been on a date. I say poor but she honestly doesn't seem to mind.
You didn't say if your nanny there worked out after you gave him a chance. I don't judge by looks either so I am curious if i got better after the initial roughness. It would be nice if the hired help would be instructible/trainable like pets. Send them to advanced parenting classes and such. Teach them that they should only be seen and not heard. I don't like them getting all cozy and friendly with my families. Then they become slackers and wanna chat all the time. Anyhow, I'm going to stop rambling but do tell about your nanny. 🔆
