Parenting Guide: Raising children

[sdinger70]

On the parenting guide, I noticed where it says you can have parents help children with their homework if they age up on a weekend where there is time before they start school. I'm just curious if what is meant by this is the Logic skill ability to tutor young sims?

[Metropolis Man]

On the parenting guide, I noticed where it says you can have parents help children with their homework if they age up on a weekend where there is time before they start school. I'm just curious if what is meant by this is the Logic skill ability to tutor young sims?

No. The Help with Homework social originates from the child clicking on the homework in inventory. Then, you'd select who the child receives help from. The Logic tutoring social originates from the Sim with that skill and is entirely different.

[Jonna]

Yes.   Once you hit a certain level in logic (I believe it's 5), you may tutor children to raise their school performance bar.  Click on the child sim, then Friendly interactions, then tutor.  This is different from the tutor-sim-in-skill interaction that is not included in the Friendly interactions.  There are even a few opportunities where you can tutor children for simoleons.  The child gets out his homework (even if it's the weekend and he hasn't gotten any homework yet because he hasn't gone to school) and the adult sits down with him and tutors.

[sdinger70]

Okay. Maybe I mis-read the guide. I was curious how it was possible to help a child with homework if they hadn't started school yet, and I just assumed it was from the Logic ability.

Is there another way to help them with it if they haven't started to school? Like if they aged up to child on Sunday and were to start school the next day?

[Jonna]

Here you go.  I got my sim up to level 5 in logic, he is now able to tutor (for school performance) his child who has not yet gone to school.  Sorry for the poor quality of the pic, and please disregard my lamp that is reflected!  The sim is not technically "Helping with Homework" but is increasing the child's grade in school.  You can watch the performance bar slowly rise.

[Carl]

Thank you for the screenshot there. I just updated the logic and parenting guides to reflect this info.

[Pam]

I've never been able to get the child to work on homework before starting school.  In my experience, there is no homework in the child's inventory until he goes to school, so I don't know how he can get help with it.  I don't have a child at the moment, so I can't double check.

[Jonna]

Right; you cannot use the interaction Help With Homework before the child has homework.  Tutoring raises the school performance bar, but does nothing for the Homework metric.

[sdinger70]

That's what I meant. On the guide, it says that a child can get help with homework before they start to school. So I was asking if this was meant to be the Tutor ability from Logic instead, as to new players it could be a bit confusing.

[Pam]

That's what I meant. On the guide, it says that a child can get help with homework before they start to school. So I was asking if this was meant to be the Tutor ability from Logic instead, as to new players it could be a bit confusing.

I'll ask Carl to come take a look at this thread.  He may want to make a change to the Guide.

[Carl]

Ok. That whole bit is gone. It looks like one of those situations where I encountered a bug during the writing process that made its way into the guide. Hate that.

[sdinger70]

It's all good. Parents can help kids with the performance (or another sibling) with Logic, as some others stated - just didn't want anyone new to get confused. It threw me for a loop the first time I read it a while back, but I forgot to mention it.

Thanks, everyone.