Teaching toddlers basic skills such as walking, talking and how to use the potty is a feature that started in The Sims 2. Obviously as there were no toddlers in the original The Sims, these basic skills were already learned as soon as the baby grew into a child. The same happened in The Sims 4 when that was first released as toddlers were omitted from the game in the beginning.
These basic skills continued in The Sims 3 whereby the toddler learning these skills would grown up well, unlike in The Sims 2 where growing up well depended on the aspiration level the toddler had at the time of aging. Nevertheless, having this feature introduced was a welcome addition to the game.
In both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, to enable the toddler to learn these skills, an active sim must click on the toddler and then choose the option to teach to walk or talk. Clicking on the potty will bring up the interaction to teach the potty skill. This takes a little while to do but once the toddler has learned all skills, they can take themselves to the potty, get around much quicker and chatter away to all and sundry.
In The Sims 4, although the interaction for teaching toddlers to use the potty is still available, learning to walk and talk can be gained from the little tablet that you can purchase in buy mode. Building blocks are also available which will enable the toddler to learn to walk. This means that the toddler can learn these skills all by themselves without the interaction of an adult sim. And while they walk around, they get much quicker, to the point where they can run without wobbling.
Thinking and imagination skills were also introduced with the toddlers for The Sims 4 and although, in my opinion, the toddlers for TS4 are the best ever, I still think that having the parents or adults interact with the toddlers to teach them the walking and talking skills makes for better gaming and better parenting too.
What do you think?
- Minicart (Jules)
