@GlazeyLady --- Congratulations on winning this challenge, and great strategy
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Here's my strategy:I had a pretty detailed strategy for this challenge. After toddler Mary came in from CAS with her parents, Victoria and John Bradford. On the first Sim day, John went out to adopt a toddler, and then came back and repeated the process, while Victoria stayed on the lot, and Mary played/skilled/completed whims for toddler satisfaction /took care of her needs (she was independent). Therefore, by the end of the first day, there were 2 adopted toddlers, for a total of 3 toddlers. After they each aged to teens, I moved them out to different households. Then, I rinsed and repeated the process (adopting 3 toddlers each time there was room --- after children moved in with teens.)
I found that when toddlers were first adopted, they came with all needs in the green, so they could start skilling and getting whims right away and go for a pretty long time --- compared to other times in the game.
Both parents had the Super Parent Aspiration and the traits, genius, family-oriented and cheerful, so they did what needed to be done autonomously. John got a job in the beginning as a tech guru, and he was eventually promoted to Quality Assurance. Victoria was always on the lot, and she helped out the toddlers autonomously, and cooked autonomously. When children were still on the lot before becoming teens, they liked to play with the toddlers autonomously.
I also set up everything so nothing tall was in the way of short toddlers so I didn’t miss a toddler not skilling or completing whims. When they needed to boost a skill, I had them make a mess (if imagination wasn’t maxed --- imagination was the only skill I completely maxed after the first batch of toddlers (although toddlers had some 3’s or 4’s --- but 1 skill would be a level 2 most of the time.) I bought cheap stuff (penguin TV, cheapest radio, etc, but spent 1,050 on the stove that’s a little better quality, along with a fire alarm. I set up the house (only an unpainted/unfinished floor bathroom with a tub/shower/toilet and sink and a cheap overhead light and a toddler part with 3 potties and an overhead light in a different bathroom, which was attached to the main bathroom by a door, and everything else was outside and close together --- except the stove which was a little bit farther away from other stuff. I had 3 toddler beds outside throughout the game, and 6 children’s beds when the first batch of 3 toddlers aged up to children. I put a painted 4 tile wide wall behind the beds for both types of night lights, above 3 beds, and on the other side of the wall, I did the same thing. There was a kitchen area, a bedroom area (and the parents slept in their cheap double bed between the toddlers and the children,) a play area which included a bookcase and Wabbit Tablet, a living room with 3 chairs, a dance area and tv area, they ate on their beds, in the chairs, and on the floor/terrain paint grass.
The toddlers wore the following colors (3 toddlers per group)
Mary red clothes, John blue, Genevieve white
Carrie very bright pinky/purple, Grace pink, Helen green
Rose orange, Frances gray, Betty Lou yellow
Lisa brown, Jeff black, Lane regular purple
