More Kids Content?

"Chazzzy;c-17908451" wrote:
What kind of kid updates are in CL?

Apparently there is a new group cooking activity which can be performed by the whole family, and kids can participate it in it. There is an animation of this midway through the trailer. I am thrilled about this sort of enjoyable family moment, because it never occurred to me that they would bring something like that to the Sims. One of the gurus said that kids still can't cook on their own, but now that they have some animations for kids, I sincerely hope they bring back the bake oven and bake sale table as well. The blog also mentions that children can learn to garden so maybe there is a group gardening activity (similar to the group cooking activity) which can take place on those new larger garden patches. There was also a clear image of a little girl doing some cross-stitch and running a needle into her finger, so the new cross-stitching activity/ skill will probably be a lot like the knitting skill (where an adult could show a child how to knit and that groups could knit together; hopefully cross-stitching will be exactly the same).

As for more kid and family activities, I would love to see group hikes in every neighborhood, the ability for families also to go on family bike rides and to jog together, the playing of board games (like Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit), playing hide and seek, playing Marco Polo in the pool (similar to Sims 2) inviting households over (and not just clubs) for a visit. We also need more interactions between kids and toddlers, desperately. The tent is a nice start, but let's have fort-building on the couch, the ability for kids to read to their toddler siblings, the ability for kids to build legos with toddlers, smaller toys (stuffed animals and dolls) that kids can share and fight over and play with together, the ability to play with barbies or action figures in a group, kids teaching their smaller siblings nursery rhymes (or, occasionally, rude songs), a train set that kids can put together and play with in a group, etc. Hopefully some day we will get a Generations-style pack which will greatly improve on family gameplay and sibling gameplay, giving us some enjoyable new group activities for families and kids to share with each other as well as loads of new, charming interactions between the different ages.