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 recently had twins-- and i'm struggling to provide for the twin toddlers, the two parents AND their other daughter.i don't know what else to say.. toddlers are just hard. i don't know if i want them to be improved on. i don't know what i'd change exactly. does anyone else? what strategies have other people used when they've had two toddlers at once? some advice would really be appreciated

I don't really have an issue with them I've raised several at a time in one house multiple times guess it depends on what you do with them.

I find toddlers the easiest of the sims 2-4 simply because they are more independent and require less attention.

I honestly don't find them to be all that hard? Definitely the hardest life stage but still not difficult to play with. I know a lot of people have said they feel the same as you, though. The last time I played with any (which was a long time ago) I needed to raise three at once and have all three max out their skills. It was pretty easy. As for tips, some people have said that using the highchairs complicates things? But I used them and they worked fine for me so I dunno. I liked to keep mine on a routine until they aged up. They would work on a skill all day until their energy hit yellow, then they would eat and go to sleep, wake up, eat, work on a skill, etc. When they were low on attention I'd have someone potty train them or bathe them (whatever was more convenient) to kill two birds with one stone. You might also consider giving all your toddlers the angelic trait to make them easier to deal with.

They can be a challenge, but I find that getting the family and the toddler into some sort of daily routine helps. Also; if they don’t nap during the day, they will get really cranky, kind of like a real life toddlers.As for skills, levelling up potty skill makes them be able to use the potty on their own rather than rely on someone changing their diaper. A higher thinking skill makes them less defiant and makes them not have nightmares as often.It might also be the traits. I find that fussy, wild and clingy toddlers are the hardest to deal with and I will usually not have those traits if I have another toddler in the household.

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.

toddlers are ridiculously difficult

purplexbutterfl
7 years ago
I don’t normally find the toddler stage too bad but for my set of twins in this save I did find them very challenging and stressful (and I’ve had twin toddlers before). I posted a thread on here asking for advice because I was struggling a little. Mine would not stay asleep so we’re always tired so I’m bought them the owl night lamp and have since had no problems with nightmares and sleeping. I put more toys round the house as I only had toys upstairs in their bedroom and nursery so they can be occupied wherever they are. It’s especially good when they haven’t mastered the stairs yet. I put potty chairs both upstairs and downstairs. I also have my sims cook or bake and drag the serving plate onto a coffee table so my toddlers can help themselves as they were always hungry and was a nightmare trying to get them into the high chair to eat. You’ll also want to level up these 3 skills first, potty, movement and thinking. Potty because when they reach level 2 the interaction for them to potty themselves comes up. Movement because on level 2 they can get up and downstairs by themselves and thinking because they have less tantrums.

Honestly my twins were little nightmares and I was gonna she them up as soon as they hit level 3 for all skills but I made the above changes and I’m absolutely loving them!! 1 toddler has just maxed all her skills to 5 and the other just needs a little bit more on thinking and imagination. I didn’t think it would be possible!!

Unfortunately for me I’ve also now got a set of twin babies in the same household who are about to age up (I’m keeping them as babies as long as possible xD as I couldn’t manage 4 toddlers). Lucky me!!!
purplexbutterfl
7 years ago
Btw even though I was stressed with my toddlers they definitely are 100% better than TS3 toddlers and a lot more enjoyable once you get the hang of them. I was struggling to take care of my adult sims needs especially with them both working so I did have them take vacation days to cope but now they both work (luckily when 1 is at work the other has their normal days off).

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