toddlers are ridiculously difficult
can we all just agree that the hardest life stage to manage is toddler? i dread starting families because of how difficult they are to take care of. especially when there's two of them-- my sims re...
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The hardest life stage to manage, compared to older sims? Yes, definitely. But hard per se? Not really, if you've played TS2. Those toddlers couldn't even get out of their cribs on their own, so if they woke up in the middle of the night, they'd start screaming your ears off until you dragged an older sim out of their bed and sent them to let the annoying crybaby out. There was no such thing as daycare, so unless you had a nanny, sims sometimes couldn't go to work because it would have meant leaving their toddler at home alone... Gosh, how I hated them back then!
Compared to that, TS4 toddlers are actually fairly self-sufficient. Of course, it also depends on the trait you choose for them, but generally, they can get in and out of their beds with no problem, climb stairs (although it takes a while), get their own food servings even from counters and other high surfaces that would normally be out of reach for them, and if you teach them to use the potty, they will also do that autonomously. Just make sure there's always some food around (putting fruit in their inventory works, too), leave a few toys on the floor for them to play with, bathe them when they're dirty and interact with them like you do with any other sim to keep their social bar filled, and you're settled.
The reason I usually age them up prematurely is not that I can't handle them, but because there's simply nothing else to do with them once they've maxed all their skills, and I'm playing with the long lifespan.
Compared to that, TS4 toddlers are actually fairly self-sufficient. Of course, it also depends on the trait you choose for them, but generally, they can get in and out of their beds with no problem, climb stairs (although it takes a while), get their own food servings even from counters and other high surfaces that would normally be out of reach for them, and if you teach them to use the potty, they will also do that autonomously. Just make sure there's always some food around (putting fruit in their inventory works, too), leave a few toys on the floor for them to play with, bathe them when they're dirty and interact with them like you do with any other sim to keep their social bar filled, and you're settled.
The reason I usually age them up prematurely is not that I can't handle them, but because there's simply nothing else to do with them once they've maxed all their skills, and I'm playing with the long lifespan.
