Toddler/Child Read Book interaction cancels

This also happens with infants. I can’t read books for them.

As the title states, the read book to infant function is bugged and is not currently working. 

crinrict​ why not tag the correct post so that I might upvote it? 

- Thank you much!

I have this problem too when my sims are standing, but when the mom sits on the sofa and the toddler sits next to her and then I use the "read toddler book" interaction at first it canceled but the second time it worked. The toddler climbed down the sofa and then back up again and then the mom started reading 😊 I wish it wasn't so hard to get to work though.

I play on PC no mods or cc.

I have four toddlers in my current household, and I have this problem with all of them.

I have my sim pick up one of their toddlers on the first floor, click on the toddler bed, usually on the second floor, and choose "read to sleep". Nothing happens. The action cancels out. My sims just stands around.

A workaround is to click on the floor, on the same floor level as the bed, choose "put toddler down here", pick up the toddler again, and then click on the bed and choose "read to sleep".

I have tested both with and without mods. I repaired the game and replaced the Sims 4 folder yesterday because of a different issue, and that did not fix this problem.

It’s definitely a new or new-ish bug. It’s been a bug when I’ve been playing for the last few days. It was not a bug the last time I played, roughly 2 months ago.

I couldn't get it to work with any age stage of my sims kids - infant to child age, even tried it when the kid was teen as they were selectable when I clicked on the bookshelf but it never carried through. My sim has five children in one save and I tried it on them all when they were infant, toddler, child and teen. My other save had one child age sim in it and it wouldn't work with them either. 

RheaFallout​ What age is your 'child'

There's also an existing thread for toddlers/infants here: Toddler Ask to read book/Read Book interaction cancels | EA Forums - 11944690 

I've had this problem for a few months too on ps4. The game doesn't give the kid enough time to get to the parent. I put a bookcase right next to the kids bed, so I'll select read to child, parent takes a seat on the bed the kid starts to toddle over to join her on the bed but parent gets up and puts the book away as the kid is pulling itself up on the bed then the kid sits there for a bit with 'be read to' in its queue as the parent leaves the room and wanders off or as OP states parent will take book out walk in a circle for a bit and put the book away and if I change to the kid the 'be read to' is in their queue until they take a seat then vanishes, this problem also occurs when you choose 'read to sleep' but in this instance it queues indefinitely until you manually cancel it. I have had two saves with kids and this happened in both. It makes the family aspiration goal "read to a child for two hours" impossible to complete. 

Hi 5d6ed5807f947e61​ 

did you test this on multiple household and does it happen on all of them or just your current one ?

No mods/cc, I play on console (Xbox). Just trying to use the action of “read to child” is impossible to get to work. I’ve tried using the action from a bookcase and dragging the actual book nearby and using it from there. Either the action will forever pend or they’ll walk in circles/drop the book somewhere. 

Yes! The same goes for using the “Read Toddler Book” interaction with infants in my game.