Toddlers Acting Odd

[eskie227]

Prior to updating and installing OLS, my toddlers always behaved the following way. If you direct it to an activity, you have to cancel it out for a parent to interact (pick up, read, feed). If the toddler initiated the activity (blocks, toys, whatever) and the parent approached, the toddler stopped playing and the parent could interact.

Now, even if the toddler is playing by its own choice, I have to cancel the activity myself before the parent can interact. Also, the window of opportunity is extremely short, that is, if the parent doesn't get to the kid immediately, and the toddler decides to beat up on teddy bear, you have to repeat the process. It's a real pain as you can't just queue up a bunch of actions for the parent to play with its own kid without planning out getting the parent right next to the kid and grabbing it before it decides to amuse itself with something else. Even feeding is tough, as you can't just have a parent or sibling go in to a toddler and hand it a bottle without keeping the focus on the kid.

Anyone else with weird toddler behavior since updating to 7.0?

[calisims]

This has not been happening to me, the toddler behavior is still the same after updating.

[goteampink]

I think the problem might actually be routing. I find I am having a harder time caring for children in apartments, maybe because they have less space?

[Velve]

I think the problem might actually be routing. I find I am having a harder time caring for children in apartments, maybe because they have less space?

On a note related to routing in apartments... does anyone else see their sim and toddler ride down the elevator to the lobby then come right back up when they select the potty train interaction?

[eskie227]

I think the problem might actually be routing. I find I am having a harder time caring for children in apartments, maybe because they have less space?

Well, one thing they didn't fix in this update was the problem of when a parent is directed to read to their toddler, they'll take the stairs down and leave the kid at the top of the steps waiting. That's still happening to me in a apartment duplex, and the stairs are at the other end of the floor from the nursery room. Between that and the play interruption issue I have, I want to just age the kid up within a day and skip the toddler phase. Not that I loved toddlers anyway, but at least before they were worth playing with for a little while.

[goteampink]

On a note related to routing in apartments... does anyone else see their sim and toddler ride down the elevator to the lobby then come right back up when they select the potty train interaction?

YES!!! And for reading!!!