Tips for taking care of toddlers please!
Ok so my accidentally had twins. (I have a mod and there’s a 3% chance of getting pregnant by wohoo) lucky me... Anyway, can I have tips to take care of toddlers. They are out of control. Both of my...
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Here is more or less how I balance a three toddler household:
Prepare breakfast the night before, and drag it out for the kids to eat on their own.
I send the toddlers to sleep by 11 pm so they (hopefully) sleep late, allowing the parents to showers, eat, and the working parent to head off to work, and if needed get messy house items clean.
When they wake up they eat, and if they have a serious bladder need the stay at home parent will potty train them before they eat, and train the others after.
I let the toddlers play with toys and entertain each other (Toddlers can raise their own social levels with other toddlers, so maybe not great parenting but I'm very hands off with my adult sims maintaining social levels with their kids) and while the kids play I focus on re-tidying the house, bathing them each, and if there is still time letting the stay at home Sim paint, watch TV, take a bath, whatever they need.
Dinner is done relatively early in the day and served at 6-7 ish in game.
After dinner toddlers are cleaned up or sent to the potty.
I seldom read them all to sleep in the 3 toddler household since it's just too time consuming.
Once the toddlers are asleep, I lock all of their doors. Toddlers get nightmares far too often and the more you have in the household the less your working sims can rest, I found this to be the hardest thing to cope with when I tried to ride it out, because my sims were getting woken up repeatedly and didn't have the energy to do what needed to be done the next day.
So lock the door to the toddler room (the reason why their room instead of the parents is simply to keep them closer to their own bed so they too can get more rest), and when they wake up and fuss tell them to nap on their bed and by the time the nap is over the cool down should be over from them not being able to sleep from the nightmare.
It also helps to move in another sim to help with child rearing, I moved in their grandparents to help out.
Prepare breakfast the night before, and drag it out for the kids to eat on their own.
I send the toddlers to sleep by 11 pm so they (hopefully) sleep late, allowing the parents to showers, eat, and the working parent to head off to work, and if needed get messy house items clean.
When they wake up they eat, and if they have a serious bladder need the stay at home parent will potty train them before they eat, and train the others after.
I let the toddlers play with toys and entertain each other (Toddlers can raise their own social levels with other toddlers, so maybe not great parenting but I'm very hands off with my adult sims maintaining social levels with their kids) and while the kids play I focus on re-tidying the house, bathing them each, and if there is still time letting the stay at home Sim paint, watch TV, take a bath, whatever they need.
Dinner is done relatively early in the day and served at 6-7 ish in game.
After dinner toddlers are cleaned up or sent to the potty.
I seldom read them all to sleep in the 3 toddler household since it's just too time consuming.
Once the toddlers are asleep, I lock all of their doors. Toddlers get nightmares far too often and the more you have in the household the less your working sims can rest, I found this to be the hardest thing to cope with when I tried to ride it out, because my sims were getting woken up repeatedly and didn't have the energy to do what needed to be done the next day.
So lock the door to the toddler room (the reason why their room instead of the parents is simply to keep them closer to their own bed so they too can get more rest), and when they wake up and fuss tell them to nap on their bed and by the time the nap is over the cool down should be over from them not being able to sleep from the nightmare.
It also helps to move in another sim to help with child rearing, I moved in their grandparents to help out.
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