You're absolutely right about childcare not always being fun for the parent/caregiver. I've watched them enough to notice that when parents are really low, their interactions with babies are listless and their tone of voice is subdued, so I don't have an issue with that particular situation. But mostly they seem to be happily interacting with them.
Hugs between parents and children are special though. It just makes me feel terrible for a poor (pretend) toddler have a happy, loving hug offer rejected. :'(
Yes, I anthropomorphize my cats and mice, too. XD
The toddler attention meter sometimes makes me crazy. Spending 2 hours teaching them with the blocks gives them plenty of fun but no attention?? Huh?? Maybe sometimes it just doesn't register or something.
To be honest, I've become almost paranoid about having a toddler ask for a hug because it hits the relationship bar so hard. I try not to. But maybe I'll start doing it more often and keeping notes of how often it happens...
I appreciate your reply and I would make a more involved post except for 2 things...
1- My neck hurts for some reason and
2- My Sims just loaded up XD
~Tyger <3
It's even worse now with the whole "Sentiments" system in place. I just had a toddler try to hug her mother, and not only did the mother refuse, which caused a dip in their relationship, the mother got the "Hurt" sentiment toward the child, the tooltip text for which is: "<mother> feels wronged by <toddler>. and being around <toddler> will remind <mother> of that pain." All this because the mother refused the toddler's offer of a hug. It's asinine. (If anything, it should have been the toddler that got the "Hurt" sentiment toward the mother.)
My toddler asked the parent for a hug and the parent refused, which was bad enough, but then I looked and the parent had a festering grudge against the toddler. It's heartbreaking to see this happen in my game with parents that are family orientated and good. A festering grudge for being asked for a hug from a toddler???? That's cruel and I don't want to see this happen in my game as I keep everyone's traits correct to be parents. They have emotional control too, so I don't understand how this is happening. I've had it happen with two toddlers by the same parent now. I feel like kicking him out at the moment! Yet it's him that keeps getting whims to have babies!! I had a pretty bad childhood and like some players, like to play The Sims to live out a life that I would have liked, so this is upsetting. I took them to the park, they were all having a lovely time playing then BOOM! hug rejected and festering grudge! What on earth is going on? This would/should never happen in real life, so why is it happening in a game that I'm supposed to be in control of?
Parent has been kicked out now and a marriage is in ruins. I really don't know where this is festering grudge and not hugging toddlers is coming from, but there will be no more children (which pains me) until this bug is fixed. Sad times in my sims game. ☹️
@Gednaa I'm sorry this is happening! I had a couple of questions...
If it's not a widespread issue and just this Sim bugging out, I would try a few things:
Please let us know how it goes!
Yes I have been having the same issue and it’s very annoying. My sims have two girls and when the eldest was an toddler the mother had the same reaction and the same for the younger daughter and their farther. I’m not sure it this is some kind of glitch but it needs to be fix. I’m not that bothered by the parents rejecting the hug it’s the sentiments that’s is the problem.
It doesn't solve the issue with sims 4 and sentiments being wrongly allocated, but if you download UI cheats, you should be able to right click sentiments to remove them.
