This may be sort of a weird question, but are there any hacks that make Sims 2 more child friendly - specifically getting rid of whoohoo options and wants?

My 7-year-old has been playing the Sims with me for the last year. For a while she played in my game, and then she started playing her own game on her own computer. She mostly just likes making families in Create-A-Sim and, to a lesser extent, building and decorating houses. However, this last weekend, she really got into playing Romeo and Juliette in Veronaville. She sent them on a date and, of course, since it went well, they rolled the whoohoo wants. ("They want to whoohoo, Mommy. How do they do that?" "Oh, you don't want them to do that, just have them kiss again." ) I think I've mostly taught her that Sim babies come from the Simblender, lol - but I would really like to avoid her learning about the birds and the bees from the Sims. Surely I'm not the only parent in this predicament - are there any hacks out there that make the Sims better for younger kids?

You bring up a really good point here. There are tons of mods out there to enhance woohoo but I can't find anything on disabling woohoo, hiding the interaction, no woohoo mods, nothing. :/

What about making her own neighborhood and a household with a few kids? With the no social worker mod, kids can do fine on their own. Also use visitor adjuster and block out all townies, etc. and set it for only children to walk by.

I'm not sure how much help this will actually be but a Google search popped up this old thread asking a similar question where someone linked to the child play mod from sims2living. The mod was donation so it's on the booty . Unfortunately the original site is gone so hopefully there's a read me in the download to explain how the mod works.

Romeo and Juliette shouldn't be rolling woohoo wants unless you have a teen woohoo hack. The farthest teens can go in an unmodded game is make out.

As for child friendly, that's why it's called woohoo instead of sex and why they do it totally under the covers. Just tell her they're playing in the bed or something. Not sure about try for baby. It would be a shame to not let her have any sim babies. Maybe you could tell her that try for baby calls the stork. XD

This is why I I didn't give my daughter Sims 2 until she was 12. I just felt some elements of the game such as that first woohoo video were far too adult. The best I think you could do is make a family with adult siblings or teen and children house holds. If she can take sims on dates they will roll woohoo wants, pretty much guaranteed.

Thank you! I'll look into some of those links tomorrow and see if I can find anything that will work for her.




She probably wouldn't be totally satisfied with this because she likes the Sims getting married and having babies. When she started playing Romeo and Juliette she was super excited about having them grow up and get married, and once they got married, one of the first things she wanted was to have them have a baby. Having her just play kids and teens would avoid the problems, but since she is aware of how the whole game works, I don't think she'd be happy with that for very long.




Oh, I neglected to mention that she had sent Romeo and Juliette to college - that is why they were able to roll whoohoo wants. There is no way I'd put Inteen in her game, lol!

She has had babies by using the Simblender and by calling to adopt babies. And I know what you mean about the graphics and name - they aren't horrible. She has even seen Sims whoohooing in the hot tub in my game, and I just tell her that they are playing in the pool (and then I go disable the damn camera options that I forgot were enabled). I just feel like she's a little young to playing a game where she has the option to "try for baby" and then have the Sims play under the covers, and I'd prefer to take that out if possible.




Yup, you're right. And, I mean, it's labeled Teen for a reason. Unfortunately, when I got the game it was just for something fun for us to do together, and I didn't realize until we'd been playing for a while (and she started playing on her own), that there were some options that I didn't want her to use. I should have realized it because I played Sims 1 a lot and knew how whoohoo worked, but it had been long enough since I played the game that I just didn't think it through very well. Dumb mommy moment.

Do you think if you made two adult siblings and let them adopt, would she be happy with that as a family? That way there would be no woohoo option.

Each to their own. Personally I prefer my 6yo to know that "woohoo" leads to babies. I did turn off cutscenes, though, and removing all hacks which relate to woohoo make it pretty tame IMO. Sims can only do it if they are in love, and as long as you avoid the Romance aspiration they don't tend to want to do it with multiple sims. It's not as though you can see anything which is going on in there, the giggling is a bit cringeworthy, admittedly!

You could use Monique's crib that let's you make an instant baby with whoever....it then just appears in the crib if you want to skip the whole "try for baby" thing. I love that thing for making orphanage babies.

simsfreq, I don't think it's the animation so much as some of the noises they make, plus the cut scenes.

Well, it is rated T for Teen (or something to that extent in other countries).

You could always do the woohoo action for her instead of her making them do it.

You can turn off the cut scenes.

I let my very young daughter play TS3 and TS4. She knows where babies come from and I thought the woohoo was vague and didn't look very sexual so it was OK. She sees them getting under the covers and doing ....something.... But it could be anything. It sounds fun, but it's pretty tame. She only does woohoo in TS4. She can't figure out how to do it in TS3. She also spends 99 percent of her time customizing everything to a lurid shade of pink so she doesn't do much in live mode with TS3.

I just installed TS2 for the first time since TS3 came out. Luckily, I played it on my own before I let her play. I forgot that TS2 was much more racy. Arms and legs fly out of the covers and the noises...eek. I don't think she'll be playing much TS2. It's a higher T rating than the other two, IMO.

Just an aside, while TS4 doesn't do much for me, it is AWESOME for my very young daughter. She can do CAS totally alone and she can build her own houses, so long as I give her several million simoleans to use. She can barely read, yet she manages to throw parties, find her favorite boyfriend (J Huntington III), get married andwoohoo and take care of her babies all alone. She even managed to get a job with GTW and though she can't get promoted because she can't read the goals, she manages to do fairly well as the lowest level doctor. She does better than I did. Because I actually read the goals, I spent all my first level drinking coffee, eating snacks and complaining to my coworkers and mostly ignored the annoying patients. She spends all her time curing patients, making beds and checking in new patients.

She can't figure out how to build in TS3 and she can't figure out how to do much else besides create families and use CaST on every piece of furniture in a house. Her toddlers and pets always get taken away by the social worker too. I think TS2 would be way too hard for her to figure out. TS2 has well earned its T rating.

Exactly, the noises are quite ahmm. Also making out and such is far more explicit. Having watched some sims 4 lets plays, do their lips even touch?

Over here Sims 2 is rated M. We have a different rating system but that is similar to teen.

I'm going to have to go make my sims woohoo. I don't know what noises ya'll are talking about.

There's a lot of suggestive giggling and "Ooo"ing if I remember correctly.

The elder woohoo is infinitely more amusing ... I mean creepy ... I mean odd. And deeply suggestive.

Puts you right off your cornflakes.

There is also this feminine groan ohhah noise. They don't make all the noises every time and I don't know what makes some couples noisy, bolts perhaps? .Some couples seem to be a lot more silent. lol, puts you off your cornflakes is right. Makes me want to turn my sound off if you get a couple like that.

LOL....I think some of the sounds differ with different voices. I had this one male Sim the other day and just the breathing noises he was making while they were making out made me want to turn down my computer volume afraid my son might think I'm watching porn...again. (I kid)

Don't forget about the honking... I have acr installed so when my sims head to bed or the nearest couch I leave the room

Katreina, I always forget that I have ACR installed until I hear my sims as well! Oops.

There's an adult woohoo hack that when the sims are getting it on it seriously sounds as if they're dying from a massive asthma attack.

Might be better than the moan and honk. I think the sound affects are what need modding out, the actual animations are not that bad.