Random baby/toddler questions
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: gali on 2005 August 15, 13:33:48
1) "note: though it may feel odd, it's ok to leave babies on the floor. No one will step on them and it gives them a chance to take in the world around them."
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"babies require a crib for sleeping (unless you want them snoozing on the cold ground)".
Not strictly true. Babies are perfectly happy dozing off on the floor. Toddlers will want a crib, because they refuse to do anything after a certain point and the floor has poor energy regen, but babies don't care about that, since the efficiency at which you do nothing is unimportant.
Now if babies could do things like suck on a slab of raw meat, like I did, that'd be great.
ZephyrZodiac:
It really is just a matter of (a) positioning of the high chair and (b) timing that gets the baby fed. Don't let some helpful teen decide it's time the baby has a bath! Make sure everyone but the food server is busy doing something they can't stop at will!
If you don't put the baby in the high chair and make it accessible, the parent will keep returning to the high chair, making moues of discontent, and end up serving one extra meal at the table. However, you can always just click on the fridge as soon as the toddler is in the highchair, and you get the option, serve food. That's what I do if the teen in question has managed to spirit the baby away to the bathroom - make them see that the child is fed!
RainbowTigress:
I tried this once to see if the child would actually get served real food like the rest of the family, but after seeing that he only got toddler mush, I decided it was more trouble than it is worth. I don't even buy my toddlers high chairs. JMP's baby controller completely ignores them anyway. My toddlers are perfectly happy getting fed bottles, and I love Inge's bottomless bottle. After the toddlers are potty trained, they can pretty much take care of themselves until they get tired.
I found out that if a toddler gets too low on several motives, like being tired and hungry and low on social at the same time, it's very difficult for the adult to interact with them at all. If they try to give them a bottle, they won't take it because they are too busy whining or dozing off on the floor. The parent can't pick them up and put them in the bed for the same reason. They won't stop fussing long enough for them to be able to pick them up. This is what happens when you have too many toddlers at once. ;) The social bunny does not come for toddlers. They just get incredibly cranky.
ZephyrZodiac:
If you're not playing challenges, try putting the flamingo of contentment on any lot with babies and toddlers. Advantanges, no dirty nappies for the babies, and toddlers never get exhausted so they learn their skills faster. They still need to use the potty, so potty training is still possible. However, they don't sleep for long when you do put them in the cot, so it's as well to have them in a separate room, or to use Move_objects to get them up when they wake!
I must admit, I always feed mine with toddler mush, not the bottle, they like sitting in the chair and it gets them out of everyone's way for a bit!
RainbowTigress:
I tried moveobjects but the toddler still thought she was in the crib. Her animations were of being in the crib and she was suspended in the air. It was weird, so I put her back in the crib where her mother came and released her. How do you get it to work? I've used Inge's reservable cribs which you can set to allow the kid to let themselves out, but this doesn't work with the baby controller.
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