Its unclear to me if love day is for children too or not, and here's why:Playing a family with a child whose name is Kyle. While Kyle is in school, a chance card pops up giving him a choice to buy flowers for all his classmates or just for himself.Kind of bothered because the game wouldn't allow us to ignore it or close it out, and was playing the parents, trying to get them involved in it.So couldn't continue to advance the game with his parents until I made a choice.Earlier while looking at the notifications, it said Kyle ignores this day due to being a child, so figured if he ignores this day, why a chance card on it.Made the choice to buy flowers for himself because why spend parents money on flowers for everyone if the day is ignored by him.After that choice was made, the game says he was selfish ( or something like that ) and that he spent the whole day alone. ( No one wanted to be his friend because he was selfish )After love day ended, it says for Kyle, love day was awful !Guess I want to know if children are supposed to participate or not ? If you go by some of the messages the game gives, they are, but if you go by the first notification that says he ignores it, they don't.At one point when I saw the message saying he ignores it, I closed it out for him, but it closed it out for everyone, and they all got a love day was awful message.I can see singles dating participating in it, and new married couples, but don't think it really is something for children. That's just my opinion though.Anyone else have thoughts on this ?

If you close out of the holiday in the upper left, it cancels the holiday for everyone. You probably didn’t mean to do that.The chance cards come from being in school and they don’t count for anything really. That’s not the reason your child would have a bad Love Day. It’s because it was canceled. Even if there was no holiday tradition applicable for the kid, he would have had a good holiday if it hadn’t been canceled.

I think what you saw was that the child ignores certain traditions. That’s different from ignoring the entire holiday. Kids can give flowers but I can’t remember if it’s a “one and done” thing or if it takes multiple interactions to satisfy the tradition (with a solid gold check mark). The kid could be sad if they didn’t give flowers enough times, or if there was another tradition on there he couldn’t do. Or it could be buggy but I don’t have a child to test it with at the moment. Sounds like a bummer but the moodlet doesn’t last that long and it’s easy to overcome, I think.

"SimzSizzle;c-17751177" wrote:Maybe we can have a new holiday for children like friend day, or school mate day.But the devs would have to do that because our ability to edit the holidays are limited.We can't delete them, we can only add some things to it.You can delete holidays. You just need to do it from the calendar before the actual holiday arrives. As long as you delete it before it arrives, it's fine.

Love Day is like Valentine's Day and in the US - kids swap valentine cards at school - at least they used to - not sure if it is done anymore. I assume that is what the school pop up on Love Day is meant to resemble. And chance cards are just that - he got that he was selfish this time, but next time you pick the same thing may be a good outcome.

I just had love day in my game and I had my sim's daughter give flowers to a friend in her club and he hated it haha, I want them to be a thing in the future that's kind of why I did that. I guess it's pretty accurate as to when I was growing up (Back in the '90s) girls used to have crushes on boys and boys thought girls had cooties haha. I know there's a chance he would have been appreciative, but in this case, he did not like the flowers. There also is a chance to get that chance card at school, I've gotten it before in the past and picked giving to the class but still got a bad result so I'm wondering if they are like the sims 2 and have a percentage with the chances. I wish they did have something more so to give a card instead of flowers. As far as I know, kids in the states still celebrate. My 7-year-old had to bring candy and cards for the whole class when he was in kindergarten and 1st grade. With all, that's going on now though I'm not sure if they will be doing that this year as well.

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babajayne
4 years ago
If you close out of the holiday in the upper left, it cancels the holiday for everyone. You probably didn’t mean to do that.

The chance cards come from being in school and they don’t count for anything really. That’s not the reason your child would have a bad Love Day. It’s because it was canceled. Even if there was no holiday tradition applicable for the kid, he would have had a good holiday if it hadn’t been canceled.
babajayne
4 years ago
I think what you saw was that the child ignores certain traditions. That’s different from ignoring the entire holiday. Kids can give flowers but I can’t remember if it’s a “one and done” thing or if it takes multiple interactions to satisfy the tradition (with a solid gold check mark). The kid could be sad if they didn’t give flowers enough times, or if there was another tradition on there he couldn’t do. Or it could be buggy but I don’t have a child to test it with at the moment. Sounds like a bummer but the moodlet doesn’t last that long and it’s easy to overcome, I think.
Haneul33
Seasoned Adventurer
4 years ago
"SimzSizzle;c-17751177" wrote:
Maybe we can have a new holiday for children like friend day, or school mate day.
But the devs would have to do that because our ability to edit the holidays are limited.
We can't delete them, we can only add some things to it.

You can delete holidays. You just need to do it from the calendar before the actual holiday arrives. As long as you delete it before it arrives, it's fine.
GypsyRozLyn
New Spectator
4 years ago
Love Day is like Valentine's Day and in the US - kids swap valentine cards at school - at least they used to - not sure if it is done anymore. I assume that is what the school pop up on Love Day is meant to resemble. And chance cards are just that - he got that he was selfish this time, but next time you pick the same thing may be a good outcome.
MsPigglyPooh
4 years ago
I just had love day in my game and I had my sim's daughter give flowers to a friend in her club and he hated it haha, I want them to be a thing in the future that's kind of why I did that. I guess it's pretty accurate as to when I was growing up (Back in the '90s) girls used to have crushes on boys and boys thought girls had cooties haha. I know there's a chance he would have been appreciative, but in this case, he did not like the flowers. There also is a chance to get that chance card at school, I've gotten it before in the past and picked giving to the class but still got a bad result so I'm wondering if they are like the sims 2 and have a percentage with the chances. I wish they did have something more so to give a card instead of flowers. As far as I know, kids in the states still celebrate. My 7-year-old had to bring candy and cards for the whole class when he was in kindergarten and 1st grade. With all, that's going on now though I'm not sure if they will be doing that this year as well.
SimzSizzle
4 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17751107" wrote:
I do know that if you press the X in the upper left corner, it will cancel the holiday for the entire household and it will result in the sad “awful holiday” buff.

Personally, I find all of the kids chance cards annoying so I downloaded a mod to stop them entirely. I hate the ones parents get from their jobs too. I disabled those as well. I don’t like pop ups in general.

That's exactly what happened with me, I closed out the holiday for Kyle, a child while in school.
It said he ignores it, so ok bye, right ?
Except that it closed it out for everyone and they all got the love day was awful message and I didn't want that because they are married, and they should be participating in it imo.
I might have to look into that mod. They stop the game until you make a choice and some of the options aren't that good.
SimzSizzle
4 years ago
"babajayne;c-17751111" wrote:
If you close out of the holiday in the upper left, it cancels the holiday for everyone. You probably didn’t mean to do that.

The chance cards come from being in school and they don’t count for anything really. That’s not the reason your child would have a bad Love Day. It’s because it was canceled. Even if there was no holiday tradition applicable for the kid, he would have had a good holiday if it hadn’t been canceled.

When I saw it cancelled for everyone, I closed the game without saving and restarted it.
I wanted the parents to participate in it but a child not so much.
When I restarted the game without saving, the love day was still there, so they participated, but I didn't do
much with Kyle because the game says he ignores that day.
The end was Kyle got the love day was awful message, while it was successful for one parent, and the other parent message was love day is over, it was actually pretty good.
The father Jonah, got the successful one because they woo hoo'd. The mother Merilee, wanted to go on a date, but it was too late for a date to me.

edit: what confuses me is one message says Kyle (the child) ignores the holiday, love day.
Then in the end, it says love day for Kyle was awful because he didn't get to do as many things as he would like.
These are conflicting messages, and I want to know which one is it.
babajayne
4 years ago
@SimzSizzle Hmm, it’s been a while since I had a child in my game but that hasn’t been my experience on Love Day. Maybe it is a newer issue.
Were all the traditions greyed out for the child?
SimzSizzle
4 years ago
"babajayne;c-17751169" wrote:
@SimzSizzle Hmm, it’s been a while since I had a child in my game but that hasn’t been my experience on Love Day. Maybe it is a newer issue.
Were all the traditions greyed out for the child?

"babajayne;c-17751169" wrote:
@SimzSizzle Hmm, it’s been a while since I had a child in my game but that hasn’t been my experience on Love Day. Maybe it is a newer issue.
Were all the traditions greyed out for the child?

@babjayne, the options weren't greyed out for him. I had him participating at first, he bought some gift items on the computer, which I was surprised he could do.
He gave his mother a rose, and he didn't give his dad anything because I saw that he usually ignored this holiday.
Then he went to school, and his parents were home alone, and I was working on their relationship, having them interact with each other.
Then I got the pop up about the flowers, and I was a little upset because the game said he usually ignored the holiday, so why am I getting a pop up I couldn't cancel ?
The choices on the pop up stunk, and I couldn't close it until I made a choice, and I wanted to get back to raising the parents relationship so I quickly made a choice.
Then I decided if he usually ignores the holiday, I'll just not have him participate, thinking it would close the holiday for just him, but it closed it for everyone, and I didn't want the parents to get a love day was awful because they're married. Married couples should max out the love day imo.
SimzSizzle
4 years ago
Maybe we can have a new holiday for children like friend day, or school mate day.
But the devs would have to do that because our ability to edit the holidays are limited.
We can't delete them, we can only add some things to it.