Tips for Managing Multiple Sim Children?

[Axiom]

Does anyone have tips for managing multiple sim children?
Right now in my household, I have 3 nooboos and 2 toddlers. I don't have that swing thing from the shop, and I deleted their IFs [Because I'm playing a file with multiple generations of large families for insane reasons]. I just can't seem to manage it without cheats. And my family oriented sim wants MORE children.

Edit: I do have all the EPs to date. And she is living with the Dad.

[alex51299]

I would suggest reading Pam's guide to the Surrounded by Family LTW on the guide since it gives great advice to managing a lot of children.

I pretty much always play with cheats myself so I'm not much help otherwise.  But one thing I can offer is to have both parents self-employed so that they can work on their career and make money at home and whenever their kids need them they can just care for them quickly.

[Axiom]

I think I got the at home careers taken care of.
Dad's LTW is to have a bottomless Nectar cellar, while Mom sculpts in her spare time.

[Schipperke]

I'm certainly no expert when it comes to Simmy little ones.  As Alex said, I think Pam's guide would be the best reference.  My only suggestion is to get them potty trained ASAP so that's one less thing that needs to be done by the parents.  And I am very fond of using the birthday cake to age them up as soon as possible too.  The sooner they can look after themselves, the better, as far as I'm concerned!

[Chuckles_82]

Supernanny LTR makes teaching toddler skills faster - my family oriented, nurturing supernanny mum only has to put a toddler on the potty twice!

[Axiom]

Supernanny LTR makes teaching toddler skills faster - my family oriented, nurturing supernanny mum only has to put a toddler on the potty twice!

Thank you! I would have never thought of that.
I also hired a butler.

[Pam]

Here's my guide for the Surrounded by Family Lifetime Wish.

And here's my article for the first Baby Boomer Challenge.

These were both written in the early days of The Sims 3, so there are more things that can help, like the baby swing.  But maybe there's still some helpful information.

[Chuckles_82]

Ah yes - if you have the LTW points, a motive mobile is a must - even if only for mum to start with. Either that, or a few trees of prosperity, if you have LL. It means Mum can just keep going, and going and going...

[XcHero]

Step one: register base game at thesims3.com to get 1000 sim points
Step two: buy the baby swing from the store
Step three: place on lot
Step Four: put baby inside and turn on slow
Step five: lock door so speed can't be changed and don't worry about them til they age up

Of course get all the toddler skills first

[Axiom]

Yeah I meant to get that darn swing last time I got 1000 points... But... I was distracted by the hypno thingy!

[Decima]

I don't have the swing but at one stage I had twin babies and a toddler, I found it was all about getting into a 'rhythm'. I'd make sure the house layout was good, so that everything was near where the babies were so the mum could get there quickly, then I'd let the babies cry until they needed their diaper changing so that I could 'sort them out' in one go. If I just went over everytime they cried because they wanted attention I'd be back over again really soon once they needed a change. So I'd do all their needs in one go and leave them in between. Same with the toddler, teach the skills then I'd just give it a cuddle, then give the bottle to it on the floor and leave it. Trying to feed in a high chair just takes too long.

Good luck with your offspring!

[ratchie]

The first time I ever played the Sims 3 I had the bright idea to give both my parents the fertility LTW I ended up with a singleton,triplets and twins all born within days of one another. I had four toddlers and twins at one point and no idea that testingcheatsenabled even existed let alone how to turn it on.
My tip is to get any adults into a routine where one sleeps at night and the other during the day if either of them are working get them to request some time off work.
Roatate through all the children and keep them on a scheduel(this works in real life too,I once had a new born an 18 month old,three year old and five year old to deal with so I know)feed bottle,play with,snuggle,lay in crib for the first roatation followed by Change dirty diapper,snuggle,play with,lay in crib for the second rotation for the second rotation.

It also helps if you recolour the cribs in different colours and always return the same baby to that crib that way you won't snuggle the same baby twice. Not that it will help now but if you ever do a baby boomer challange the heavy sleeper trait is great as they do not wake one another up.

As for toddler training choose one toddler and get them trained up then buy them the block table to entertain them while you work with the other toddlers.

Rachel

[Reliant]

I did a game a while back where my plan was to have 3 pregnancies with fertility treatment to see what would happen and if I could handle it all with 2 working parents. Two of them turned out to be twins, so I was raising 5 kids. It was quite hectic, but also a lot of fun. I did them as quickly together as the game would let me. In my save my eldest twins just turned YA and the youngest twins turned teen on the same day with the middle kid having 6 days left as a teen. The father is a 79 day elder, but the mother still has 2 days left as an adult.  I don't remember why there is such a large age difference between the parents. I know both are CAS.

For careers, the father went firefighter and the mother went the cooking career (currently lvl . She had lots of days off from all the kids, and the firefighter made for some flexible times, but I didn't use any sims store items and the only LTWs were fertility treatment, professional simolean booster, multi-tasker, and meditative sleep.

The only tip I can give is to have a job with flexible hours. My current game had one parent with a day shift and the other parent with a night shift (wasn't planned that way) which made raising the kids a lot easier.

For the most part, all I did was take care of their needs, find time to teach them skills, and leave the toddlers to crawl around and do what they want. As kids, all I focused on was meeting their needs, making sure they got to sleep on time, and making sure they did their homework. Everything else was left up to the sim (which wasn't much spare time after doing all that).

[ice cream]

I always hire a babysitter right before I send the adult sims to bed.  The teen sitter takes care of the kids while the adults sleep, therefore they wake up rested.  Works really well.

[JamieR]

Firstly, you're probably going to have to accept that you won't be able to keep all the children green 24/7. However, I raised 6 children decently (at one point w/ 3 babies, 2 toddlers and a child)by getting my stay-at-home mum to essentially have no life - I kept her going to the babies to fulfil their needs before they started crying and also made her get up at night countless times. As she was constantly being interrupted, she was constantly tired and hungry, but the kids were fine! At one point, I just hired a babysitter and made her go to the goths (friends with all of them) and sleepover there and eat decently (I only did this after the most intense 5 days of my sim's life.