How many kids is enough?

[Jeeb]

I once had to put cribs outside, lol. >U<

lol that's better than what most townies have, which is usually none.

Single parent I usually have one or two depending on what I want that Sim to do. My one family that I play quite a bit has 8 at the moment. Of course not all of them are babies.

Slightly OT, I will randomly pick a family in whatever town I'm playing and give them anywhere between 5-50 babies just to see what they do. 

[KirbyAndKat]

I remember this one Sims 3 video where a girl gave a tour of her family home. The family consisted of 17 kids, one deceased. What she did, was move the father and six kids out and invite the father over frequently to impregnate the female. Then, she kicked out that kid with the dad (Full household. A dad and 7 kids. )

So the mother was living by herself and still invited the father over until she had 7 kids. She moved out several kids when they were young adults, but the frequent pregnancy thing kept on going between the mom and dad. If you look it up on YouTube, I think it's called the "Heart" family.

[All Around Sims 3]

Cool, thanks for the feedback. Nice picture warr2098!

[ArianaJade]

Seven toddlers is mental, I can barely cope with twins. Did she ever get any sleep?

I usually have two or three kids. Any more and I start to hate playing the file as it's too much work. Never again will I have triplets though, once was enough.

[warr2098]

Well she had a butler and maid so she coped... just 

[annieover]

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I like to be selfish and keep my Welshman all to myself....
I like my peace and quiet......
I like spending my money on my husband and I, and our pets.......

No it is exactly the same as it is in real life.....

[Janna]

I think it would depend upon your sims traits, such as are they family oriented?  A sim, especially both of the parents, will do a better job at raising several children over ones who aren't family oriented. Are both parents working?  Can you afford a maid? To buy the toys and books that help in raising them?

You can take them to the library to read them the books, but I prefer to read them to the kids at home.  Read to one and have the other reading one on his/her own.

I have a sim couple now that I gave a much longer life span for YA and for Adult (I think it is 50 days), gave for the toddler 15 days and teen 15 days.  That way I could spend the needed time with the kids to give them what I feel is needed.  But I am new to such type of games, so I am not good at multi-tasking so that is a factor. 

Right now, my sim family has four, two newborns, one a toddler and one who has just aged up.  But before "yesterday" sim time, there were four cribs, two in the kitchen and two in the bedroom. 
If all goes well, and I think it will, I will have another set of twins after the youngest set age up to child.  That will give me six.  But, I would not think of trying it without both parents being family oriented and one parent who can stay at home and have a maid.  At least not until I had played the game for quite some time and feel really confident about my ability to multi-task.   


So, in answer to your question, it depends on many variable besides the desire to have kids, just like in real life. 

[KirbyAndKat]

I believe my Orphanage Project mother has the Dislikes Children trait, and she's doing well. I like to use that trait for parents, it makes the game more challenging. Also, I think it's just good to toss in a baby in a game. Take HeadbuttArcade's games for example. He started off with 4 YA's in one game, got two pregnant, and that made the Let's Play more interesting!

[Huge]

There was no space! I ended up making cribs in the garage 

Are your sims against contraception or something? One more and you could have renamed your female sim "Octomum"

[Korva]

Never again will I have triplets though, once was enough.

I hear you. I had planned for two kids in my current household and decided to try twins to "get it over with" in one go. Out popped triplets. Let's just say I was powerfully glad to have three adults in the house and can't imagine how I'd have coped without the extra pair of hands. Being self-employed also helps a bunch. That household is currently sitting at 9 members: the three adults, the triplets in the child-stage, and three cats. I'm never starved for something to do. :p

I'm torn about Sim-kids in general because I don't like children, but at the same time the sense of "game progress" that comes from Sims procreating beats just starting with a whole bunch of adults.

@warr2098: How did you end up with seven toddlers?

[kindofagirl]

I tend to go crazy and have lots of kids then can't handle them lol

So in my current family I have mam and dad they had twins, the mam has died of old age, so the twins married and had one child each and they all live in one house, so there is 5 adults and 2 kids (1 just turned to child and 1 was just born) so as I have 7 I don't have the temptation to have more (I know I could fit one more in but I won't) then I plan on doing the same once the first dad (so the grandad) dies and the eldest child is old enough I will get him to marry and have a baby etc etc

[Mafuane]

For some reason I've come to hate having kids! So usually if it's a guy, I get him engaged to a townie, have a child with her and let her bring it up in her family till it's a child, marry the mother and move them in then I can send it away to boarding school. I have a heart of stone! lol. I can always change it's traits with lifetime wants or cheats.  With a lady, I just put the crib in the butler's bedroom and get him/her to look after it. I'll do the training it to walk and whatnot, but everything else, butler time. Time machine is also great for gettin kids past that awkward toddler stage. I hate that the women have such longer paternity leave, I need to find something to change that. In a normal family it's always the parent who doesn't work as many hours that looks after the kids or maybe the grandma if there is one.