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Child Care Mods

1.) Kids & Pets Unattended by BoilingOil

Parents can leave babies, toddlers and children unattended. Sims will not whine about not wanting to leave the little ones at home alone, and the Social Worker and the Animal Control Officer will stay away!

2.) Child Care Centers by Chris Hatch

You can build a Childcare Centre and take toddlers there and pick them up later by your sim’s own car, ‘ownable car’ is the only way to visit the lot. To drive toddlers to childcare first you need to build a childcare centre, build it as a regular community lot, then place the Globe Sculpture anywhere which will convert the lot into a childcare centre. Childcare centre’s main feature is that it does not remove visitors each time it loads except in buy/build mode so that your toddlers will still be there when you pick them up.
When you choose to go to a childcare centre the car will first try to find a local childcare centre, one in the same sub-neighbourhood that your sim lives in or use the first one it finds if there is none locally. That gives you the choice of having a central childcare centre or individual centres for each sub-neighbourhood.

3.) Child Support by Monique

Support Amount (default):
– pregnant $200 (until not giving birth) x 3 = 600 approx. (no support if you’re playing Supporter’s house)
– baby $200 (Mon,Wed,Fri and Sun) x 4 = 800/week
– toddler $200 (Tue,Thu and Sat) x 3 = 600/week
– child $200 (Wed and Fri) x 2 = 400/week
– teen $200 (Thu) x 1 = 200/week

The transfer of “support amount” from Supporter to Dependent is actual. It will subtract from Supporter’s family fund and it will add to Dependent’s family fund.

4.) Intercom/Baby Alarm by Sim Logical

The smaller object (which is meant to be a CD Rom in case you couldn’t recognize it from the picture) is the transmitter, and you place that in the nursery, or any room that you’d like your Sims to be able to detect sound from. It’s best to hide it under some furniture as it can’t be walked over in all circumstances. The larger object goes on the wall of the room where you want the Sims to be alerted, e.g. the parents’ bedroom. It has an on and off setting in case they want a lie in some mornings while another Sim has their receiver on instead. You can use as many transmitters and receivers as you like, and in this version they all share the same “channel”.

5.) Reservable Cribs by Sim Logical

Assign cribs to babies and toddlers.

6.) Crib Fix by Sim Logical

This is for the problem of parents and nannies getting babies and toddlers out of one crib only to place them in another. 

7.) Less Autonomy Baby Care by Sim Logical

Note: JM Pescado has a babycare hack at MATY which is better updated and supported than this. Warning: some players have found this patch stops sims being able to feed their babies or toddlers at all.  If this happens to you, try taking out this patch first!

This patch reduces the Sims’ obsession with their babies and toddlers. It will override parts of the code of Maxis original bathtubs, fridges, cribs and sinks. Some cloned versions of these objects, including the reservable cribs, may ignore this patch.

8.) Visitor Enabled Cribs by Squinge

This mod allows all sim to use all cribs.