Nanny doesn't care?

I've never had problems since I installed the better nanny mod by littlemssam. Here is the link: http://littlemssam.de/better_nanny/

Also check out the rest of her site! I use TONs of her mods. They are so helpful. :)

My sims have a nanny, a butler, and a maid. They have two toddlers. The nanny stands in front of the butler's bed and talks to the bed all day. The sign for simoleons keeps coming up. When my sim got home from work, one of the toddlers was near starving to death. I fired the nanny and got a new one, and the new nanny talks to the bed as well. I tried selling the bed and buying a different bed, but nothing changed.

My nanny was spraying under child's bed and talked to bed most of the day. Then she left while my sims were out. This was the worst experience I ever had with nannies. Her traits are family oriented, good and neat.
I need an option to have live in nanny. I remember years ago nanny left only once I dismiss her, so I had 2 nannies in the house for days.

I'm not a huge fan of the nannies in this iteration. They develop an obsessive attachment to the family they work for and start asking the child or teen Sims over to their place to hang out. Say, what? If you have room in your household, you could consider creating your own live-in Nanny via CAS. I used to do that in Sims2. That way, you can control them, too.

Hmm...I've never used a Nanny for a infant. So that is rather strange. I know for toddlers, the nanny does indeed only need to do is cook and can ask the Nanny for things if needed. Since our little ones can pretty much do everything else on their own. However maybe EA figured that that we wouldn't need a Nanny for infants and assumed we'd put them in daycare, compared to the toddlers since most might want to continue working on skills while mom and dad are gone.

This is interesting, I might try this for the next generation of future infant sims in my game.

"AfterMidnight;15575642" wrote:
It's likely her traits. She might be a lazy sim. I've had one like her, but I've also had one who was awesome with babies and toddlers. Luck of the draw, I suppose.

ooh! I didn't think of that. That could highly be the case.

It would be kinda cool if you hired a nanny and temporarily they were in the household so you could control them to do their jobs and then once the parents are back they're removed from the household, take their fee, and leave.

"Sha2520032003;15577335" wrote:
I'm beginning to think that how well a nanny does depends on their traits. I just fired one. I got a message that the baby was hungry but the nanny was focused on helping the child with piano. Great that the nanny was helping the child, but the baby hadn't been fed. Yep, fired him. He wasn't exactly lazy, but I didn't like how he multitasked.

So I hired a new nanny. Now the new nanny, she's not an elder so she can move around a bit faster and she's on top of everything. I tip her everyday too, so I don't know if that helps any. But she multitasks with all three of the kids (baby, toddler, child). To add some drama, the husband had an affair with the nanny, who is now pregnant...so not sure how that will work...if I'll get to keep her as a nanny or not. I hope so, as she's the best I've ever had in game, as far as taking care of multiple kids and being on top of everything.

I had the same thing but she was more focused on helping the toddler with his blocks then taking care of the baby.

"Uzone27;15579197" wrote:

"Dreamie209;15579091" wrote:

"Uzone27;15578889" wrote:
Guess I've been lucky...all my Nannies have been fantastic.
in fact several times the Nanny has either dropped by or called on the kids birthdays.
Don't know if that's coincidence or not....but it's happened enough times for me to take note of it.

Pretty much my Nanny. Infact, he seems like my whole neighborhoods' nanny :lol: . He seems rather professional like all the time lol. The first thing he does the moment he walks in the house is make a huge plate of food (always veggie safe!). He does sit down for t.v, but the moment a child asks for something, he's on it immediately. I almost always tip him, cause he's really good at what he does (one family almost became broke :lol:).

But he doesn't stop there, whether it's birthday parties, weddings, etc. he's always there. One time, since he did such an amazing job helping out with the kids, I invited him to one of my sims wedding. It was a good call too, because even though he was off duty, he went right over to the shy toddler who didn't know anyone at the party. But she was sooo happy to see him! and she pretty much talked to him all through the party.

Yep I've had three Nannies since toddlers and they've all behaved exacctly as you describe for me as well
In fact..

This one sprayed for monsters under the bed after he died and the kids were teens.
He had a better relationship with some of the seven kids than their Foster Mom.
His name was Walter Connelly RIP

That's some serious dedication there :bawling:

I find, in general, all employees do better when you interact with them. This is especially true in restaurants and retail. But I think it is also true with the butlers and nannies. And keep in mind, the nannies often aren't caring for their needs. I had a nanny once who was on my home lot for days. She was a mess. I ended up using the cheat to get her needs filled, the poor thing.