More Awesome Than You!

I found this rather worrying last night.  I sent my adult sim off to town whilst the kids were in school.  She stopped by the bookstore, then took a fishing lesson, and finally stopped at the Bistro for a bite to eat.  While she was there a mother sim and her toddler came by.  At first the mother started teaching the kid to walk while other customers were milling about.  After a bit she stopped teaching the kid and started chatting up some guy.  I went to check on my kids, and left mom reading at the Bistro after her meal.  I came back a few sim hours later to check on mom.  She was still contentedly reading, and everyone else had wandered off, including the other sim mom leaving behind her toddler.

Now I've only seen this that one time so far, but it's got me wondering.  How many sims do this, and if these poor children some how magically know how find their way home.  Shouldn't Social Services be all over these irresponsible sims for abandoning their toddlers?  You know they would be if heaven forbid I left my toddlers at home with out a teen sibling, or a babysitter!

I noticed this as well. I sent a sim to the beach and there was a toddler left there for hours and hours. It was still there by 4am. I don't think they're reached by Social Services though....

I've seen this too, and I think when the toddlers motives get too low they are magically transported to their house.  

I actually tried to see what would happen if I stole a toddler from a house. I think it was the grandmother, and she picked the toddler up and went to her own house.  I had her feed it and play with it and after a while the toddler just disappeared from the lot.  No harm done, it was happily at his house.  Looks like they are immune to neglect!

Sims are terrible parents, bringing their babies out in public like that, yes. Don't they know that this isn't appropriate? Someone could SEE them there! The list of potential witnesses quickly balloons out of control, and it rapidly becomes infeasible to kill them all.

Indeed. Post birth abortions FTW.
 ;)

While playing the Bunches, I sent the Dad and one of his sons fishing and didn't realize the Dad was holding the new baby until I got a message that I couldn't leave the baby on the ground and asked if I wanted a babysitter to take it home.  I think that is the auto-magical way that the kids eventually get where they are supposed to be because sure enough the baby showed up on the floor in the entryway at home.

I've also noticed when sending my sims visiting their friends that frequently the toddlers are the only ones that show up as "home".  I guess neglect is not really an issue :)

I think this takes the cake.
Please note that the parents are not cut out the picture, they aren't in sight at all.

(http://www.fantasiadomain.com/ts3/Screenshot-21.jpg)

Lol.  From the good ol' sim days of not being able to take the kiddies anywhere, now they can crawl off into the sunset on their own.  It is comforting to know though that I'm not the only one with horrible sim parents around town.

What's disappointing is when a car runs over them, nothing happens. I wish there was "Death by Car."

Definitely. Not enough death in TS3 at all.

Bring back baby BBQ!

Ha ha. That picture up there does "take the cake". I have yet to see something like that.

I remember when my Sim went to the Sunflower Spa, (in Riverview), and since it's a rabbit-hole I had went to watch what other Sims were doing until my Sim was finished.

Well, here this Sim dad put his toddler down into the bushes and just left. He actually got into a car and left. I was shocked for a moment because I didn't think that would be allowed to happen in the game but I soon got over it because I kept seeing it soon thereafter.

At least they taught him well enough to use the crosswalks. I be not wanting no jaywalking toddlers in my game.

I've seen toddlers crawling along the sidewalk near the park a few times, though I've never thought to select them so that I can see where they think they are going.  They can move pretty quickly, but I guess I would too if I were about to be poofed.

"To be poofed".

If you let your toddlers roam, the Poofs might get them. The Poofs loves toddlers and small children. Om nom nom.

Beware the Poofs.

That's to cute, I wonder if the toddler was following his parents, knowing that thats the way they went.  I had something similar in game.

The Chris Hansen of TS3 is working very hard to catch the Poof.

I wish toddlers could "jog to" once they had learned to walk.

That would be hilariously cute  :)

I haven't had anything like this, in game, but at least with playable toddlers I try to age them up ASAP, because I'm not too keen on the early stages. Of course, now I have to experiment with kidlet and the poofs. Hmm, who can I impregnate...

I try not to laugh when I'm websurfing at work.

This made it damn near impossible.

I noticed a toddler sitting all day in the yard across the street from my sim's house. I kept thinking, "Mountain lions... where are the mountain lions?"

Then, I organized a beach birthday party for one of my sims. I duly had the mom hire a babysitter. Next thing I know, she walks out of the house holding the squee larva, drops it next to the bar at the beach and leaves it there. I did tell her to pick it up before she went home, but she arrived at home without it. I figured it would die of hunger or diaper rash, as its icon was getting into the red. She went back and retrieved it, but after that, she had a glitch where she kept popping off the toilet or in the bed. I realized that she had a phantom baby and reset her.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/2nm2bk7.jpg)

I can haz cheezburger nao? I PROMEES TOO BEE GEWD! :)

Am I missing something in that pic?  Parents woohooing while their kids sleep is parenting fail?

Kids... sex, you don't get it?  :(

Yeah, I don't get the pic either.  How do you think little brothers and sisters are born?

Um, I hate to break it to you, since your profile says you're a 12, but... parents have sex.  As the previous poster says, it's where brothers and sisters come from.

I know parents have sex, but... ahh fuck it.

Glad I wasn't the only one.

It'd be bad parenting if the kids were in the same room.

What if the wall was über thin?

Only if they make weird animal noises or use loud toys. Don't really see the issue.

Bad parenting if they were woohooing in a dressing room while the kids played in the store. =oP

I dunno.  If they're quiet, I see nothing wrong with that.   :P

Heheh.

Woohooing in the plastic play castle then? Not that there IS one in the Sims...

As long as the children aren't there, it's all fair game. 

*snort* So they should never ever have sex if the walls are thin? The kids have to learn sooner or later, it's not like the parents are bringing drunk one-night-stands home and doing it ON the kids' beds.

I guess I shouldn't tell you about how many RL new parents actually have to resort to woohoo with the larva IN the room or while it's making a fuss in the next room because if they waited for it to just quietly be asleep while they were actually not passing out, there'd never be any woohoo, just more nappies needing changing all the time, which is OH SO MUCH FUN OMG AND GOOD FOR THE RELATIONSHIP!

I don't get this whole uptight attitude towards sex, I really don't. It's ignorance that's truly harmful...

What if the wall was thin?  SRSLY?  Do you have any idea how many countries/places in the world there are no walls and families live in one room?  Or how about if the walls are made of paper?

I have a sixth month old son who's crib in in our bedroom, so when my husband and I "woohoo," the sproglett is indeed in the room.  He doesn't know, doesn't care, and has always slept through.  Big deal.

All the children on this forum are now traumatized...

Hear, hear!

What children?  There aren't supposed to be any children here.

If anyone is young enough to still be shocked that their parents must have had sex at least once, then they're too young for MATY.

I know, but there is clearly one child on this thread at least.

I can see it now... "OMG MOM!  Do you guys have sex while I'm home?!"   lmao

I heard my parents having sex all the time when I was little. Didn't really bother me. Seeing it would have, I'm sure. Goodness, you're such a 12.

If it bothers you that your pixel parents are getting it on next door to their SLEEPING pixel sproggen, then it is YOUR fail as Sims Deity for not designing the house in such a way that the bedrooms would be further apart.

As has been noted, real parents do occasionally get it on while their real children are just on the other side of a standard interior wall, and these kids manage not to grow up to be Emo cutters over it.

ETA4clarity.

Wow, I read that completely the wrong way. I might go scrub my brain clean now.

Sorry. I don't speak Pedobearish, and didn't realize my phrasing would be taken that way. My bad.

I heard my parents once. I was horrified. I thought they'd given up sex after they had me.

I saw my parents having sex once. Not sure I will ever be able to think of the 'woman on top' position without briefly remembering what my Mum looks like naked.

I'm still pretty well-adjusted.

I've had sex while my kids(infants) were asleep in MY bed, so fuck you, 12.

What, you'd never seen your mother naked before?

Most people don't picture their mother naked when someone suggests that they'd like to have sex with the female on top.

(http://cats.moreawesomethanyou.com/die12.jpg)

Change your nick, n00b, one Booblebrox (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=13125) is enough around here.

The Sims you're not controlling seem to get away with a bunch of stuff, like going out and leaving their infant home alone, etc.  I imagine if it wasn't like that, every child in every family not being played would end up being taken away by the social worker.

Perhaps it is a case of one account per head.

Our kids sleep like the dead so we have occasionally had the quiet nookie with them nearby.

After Hurricane Ike we were stuck sleeping on a mattress on the floor in a room with no doors for 5 months until they finished putting the house back together (our room was the most trashed in the house) and trust me, we did not abstain all that time.

Post deletion, it occurred to me that perhaps Booble forgot that her account had a space between the two words and created a new one.

Err, I'm not really a n00b, I've been here since 2006, but for some reason the board stopped accepting my username/password so I had to create a new account.


Dang, I guess you deleted my account as well as my post.  But, all is well now.

By the way, does your Sim child interacts with toddlers ? i tried to get my sim child to interact with his baby sister but no interaction was available  ??? .. 

The only ways i could find for toddler/child to interact, would be watch the TV together, or play on the Play Table together.