What's your dicipline on children/teens/pets?

I give them a lot to do to keep everything from falling into total chaos. I like having the occasional crisis to keep things interesting, but I do micromanage when it is needed. The one thing I do not allow is my engaged/married Sims flirting with random Sims. I have a mod to keep that from happening.

• not allowed to wake sims up.
• Not allowed to be taken by evil social workers that boom them to nonexistence
•not allowed to drink from puddles cause its gross

otherwise we fine
oh wait

• Not allowed to be bear. I am sick of that phase hitting all my sim kids out of nowhere you be depresso all you want but no bear costume for you kid

I do strict when I have my Sims discipline their kids or have them go in a time out. It was a bit awkward the other day I was playing and I had my Sim parent do that to their teen son but hey, whatever. I just wanted to see what would happen. I normally try to do the no lick puddles or wake up for dogs. Cats, I try to train but sometimes they are harder to catch in the act like with jumping on counters and stuff. It also depends on what mood I'm in. Sometimes I personally don't care or don't wanna do it lol

Cats: No waking, no scratching, no puddles, no begging for food - sometimes.

Dogs: I don't play with them often enough to have a pattern.

Children & Teens: I don't usually discipline them, though I've modded out making messes. I do have them do their homework promptly, though not always work on projects. Otherwise, I try to focus on Empathy from the Parenthood pack, because it's one of the hardest to raise, and because I think it's more important than Manners. I'd focus on responsibility, but enough days of doing homework, going to school, and feeding the cats takes care of that.

When I do discipline them, it's usually "Firm" with things like "express disappointment." Probably because that was most effective in raising my own kid (who graduated with High Honors from college this summer) and I was never an authoritarian parent.

It usually depends on the family. Some are more wild than others. Generally speaking, though, everyone must be housebroken. That includes toddlers/children throwing paint and syrup. I also just like teaching my pets tricks and having my children do their homework, but it isn't something I break my back over either.

Actually, I'm probably pretty lenient. I usually get the family board and set a curfew, but it ends up pretty decorative. I've genuinely just removed the curfew when following through with an extra rebellious arc once. If I had to pick a character value slant, though, it is responsibility.

Probably a more unique thing about the way I play is that spaces matter. Personal and communal spaces, so locks and assignments are vital mechanics. Most Sims cannot access each others' bedrooms unless they are shared. If they want to interact it will be in a communal room like the living room.

When it comes to sim kids, it mainly depends on the family itself and how I roleplay them. Therefore each sim might have very different parenting methods. Others are much stricter than others and they can also be very particular with what they actually react to. E.g. a Slob sim of mine doesn't give one whit that her kid goes around making messes. The other one just cheered on if his kids decided to fight other kids (especially if that other one started it) but DID intervene if they started being mean to their own siblings. Sometimes I might even roleplay them having "favorites". Like how one kept kinda pampering their Clingy toddler daughter while being more strict with the Fussy one throwing tantrums.


The above also somewhat applies to pets but I have noticed there's more clear patterns:

Cats I usually let do whatever they want. Like, I wouldn't let a cat sit on a kitchen counter or a dining table IRL but in the sims I just find it way more visually interesting how they can hang around all over the place and do stuff.

Dogs. I usually train them to stop rolling in puddles/trash because it gets so annoying to constantly bathe them.

When I play, I tend to discipline my children sims depending on their parent(s). If I imagine a parent to be an authoritarian, then that parent will definitely be strict with their children. If I envision a parent to be a little more permissive, then they are almost always calm if they even choose to discipline the kids.

Like @Thrior, I too tend to "pick favorites" or just treat my sim children differently. For example, in my current game I have two children, and two authoritative parents (not to be confused with authoritarians). Their daughter is pretty wholesome and their son is quite mischievous. The parents tend to be more lenient with their daughter compared to their son as her character values are high in manners, responsibility and empathy and his are not.

For pets, I sort of cheat this a little because I almost always give my sim pets the clever trait. They never really need training other than dog tricks if I want them.

At the moment I have one toddler. Mom and dad use calm at first then firm if bad behavior continues. They haven't had to go beyond that yet and I'm reluctant to have them go to strict, but we'll see if it reaches that point. She has a lot of freedom to do whatever she wants, but no messes allowed outside of the two designated areas, no tantrums or meltdowns, and no splashing in the toilet. Messes and toilet splashing gets a firm response, tantrums get a calm response. She's a good girl for the most part or she's just committed to misbehaving in the three ways I mentioned. In which case I need to expand her imagination to find new ways to get into trouble.

I don't have pets in the household since they use up valuable slots.

I really dislike the color mess.... when they do that I have the sim parent use strict dusipline on them and then have the kid clean it up.

Dogs: don't play in puddles or trash, go potty outside and other than that I train them to do tricks

Cats: I don't play cats I'm allergic irl so I just forget

Toddlers to kids: firm don't make a mess or express disappointment

Kid to teen: manners, empathy, responsibility, and conflict resolution..I can't think of the other one because it's never one I seem to accomplish. I don't really have a strict home, I just play with a routine that tends to build their character values and skills.