Cannot feed toddler.

@DizzyDizzyDiana Hello!  Sorry you're having this problem in your game. 

EDIT: I should've asked if you tried having your toddler grab their own plate of food.  You can direct toddlers to grab serving whether a meal is on the floor or table or counter.  Also, can you check to see if your parent sims have any "introduction" options for the toddler?  There have been issues when a baby ages up to toddler, the parents need to be introduced for some reason.  This may be related to sims having the "beloved" trait.  Do your parent sims have that trait?

As for the issue of parent sims not caring for the toddlers, do you have any mods/CC?  If so, exit your game and then move the mods/CC files to another folder, maybe create a temporary folder on your desktop for them.  Then look in your file directory for the Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 4 folder and delete the localthumbcache.package file in there.  After that, open the game and load your household to see if the problem is still occurring.  If not, you can start adding back your mods/CC a little at a time to see which one is causing the issue.

If your issue is not related to mods, there are a couple open reports that I think are similar to what you described.

[OPEN] Parents refuse to care for toddler - Answer HQ (ea.com)

[NEEDS SAVES] My sims won't take care of their toddler - Answer HQ (ea.com)

If either of those are the same, please click "me too" on the first post. 

In the meantime, I have a suggestion for a workaround for the feeding.  Try having your toddler go into their bedroom (or any bedroom) and lock the door only for them.  Then drag a plate of food into the room and see if they'll eat it.  If they're upstairs or far from the kitchen, you can also drag the plate to their inventory and grab it from there to eat.  I know that's not ideal but at least this way it should keep anyone from coming and taking the food.

Please come back and give an update on how things are going!

Please help urgent - I am getting very distressed as this is a trigger issue for me in my past (as my own experiences as a child) My parents will not feed their toddler - they just refuse/ignore the requests. I reset the game so there is not a conflicting queue  I have reset the household several times and still we are on the fourth time that this family have had their child taken into care. Why won;t they feed their toddler. Please help.   I have sepnt five hours trying to get them to feed the toddler now today - the third time i have spent as many hours Please help.

please help as i have asked twice already and i am getting really distressed. I do not know why

this is happening. 

@DizzyDizzyDiana Hello!  Your issue is terribly frustrating and there are people who want to help.  It's important that you follow your posts and let us know if the feedback is working or not.  I realize my reply to your earlier post is rather long but please read through and let me know if anything helps there.

Re: Cannot feed toddler. - Answer HQ (ea.com)

For the immediate fix, you can use the "make happy" cheat to fill your toddlers' needs so they aren't taken away.  On the keyboard press Ctrl + Shift + C and enter the code testingcheats on  then press Shift and click your toddler.  Look for "Cheat Need" and the "Make Happy" option.

Again, please read through my original reply and let us know if it helped.  If I cant help you, I'm sure there are others here who can.

I could not find my poats  - I am s=being so distressed.  Thank you I shall read the previous reply.   now I know it was replied and can find it

Thank yoou - missed your last reply - working my way round managing this forum.   Find it a little different to others eg Delphi.

Np mods or ccf

Have restarted

Have deleted and rebuikd household

Hae introduced nanny

Have dragged food to toddler

The actions queue but disappear before completed (tho not change nappy or clean but yes bathe or feed).  Or the parent engages but then abandons the action without completing.

Have tried to take the toddler to another house but again the child was removed before anyone there could feed them.

Will try the debug andf make toddler happy cheats. And then the clear cache

@DizzyDizzyDiana No worries.  This forum can be a little difficult to navigate at times.  I'm glad you found it 🙂

When you dragged the food to your toddler, was it a full meal? And did you have the toddler grab a serving? Does the toddler cancel that action?

Edit: After doing a bit more research and reviewing your post (along with others having similar issues), I'm convinced the issue is autonomy.  It's possible others may disagree with me but I wonder if you might disable autonomy for as long as it takes to get the toddlers aged up.  There are known issues across multiple posts indicating sims interrupt actions to complete other autonomous whims.  This includes toddlers.  Even if you manage to direct a sim to feed the toddler, the toddler may gain his or her own whim which can also interrupt the action.  So, my advice is to go into your settings and disable the gameplay autonomy.  Basically, from the triple-dot settings menu, select Game Options then Gameplay and set autonomy to Off, as well as check the box to disable autonomy for the active sim.  This will prevent those whims that interrupt directed actions.  This way your adult / teen sims complete care actions that you direct and toddlers complete eating and other actions.  Of course, that means you have to direct your sims to do other things but only until the toddlers age up.  Then, hopefully, you can re-enable autonomy and sims will care for themselves. I also would like to again encourage you to click "me too" on this post because I think it matches your issue.  [OPEN] Parents refuse to care for toddler - Answer HQ (ea.com)

HI

Now feeding or giving a drink to the toddlers in that household are not an option. Which is ok. But I have the cheat to solve some issues.   It may have been the pregnant mam /new baby plus I had two Moses Baskets somehow.  

Interestingly this family  - parents  - is not aging at the same rate as the siblings of which she, the mam, is the oldest of the five the others of whom, bar one are now elders.   ``````

`Thsnk you