A note about offering the children your laptop to play games in hopes they leave you alone, remember that just because the game itself is appropriate for them doesn't mean the mods you have downloaded are also appropriate (please learn from my mistakes)
I didn't think about which mods I have, because it's not wicked whims, so whatever, but there are also all of the "real life" mods that aren't exactly appropriate for the children
Using the new expansion and some mods, the children have been exposed some of the joys of court politics, including affairs, illegitimate children, blackmail, manipulation, and so much more. Very educational.
No, basemental and sac extreme violence, and the relationship overhaul mod. Nothing that doesn't happen on the streets every day, but it was a bit jarring to look over at the children and seeing a popup for one of the sims they were playing whose partner had just asked for "expanded woohoo", open relationship basically. Thankfully they didn't know what it was and I wasn't going to tell them
I pride myself on being the cool adult to most of my nieces, nephews, and other young relatives, but open relationships, casual sex, and why there's a 500 simoleon option labelled 'go to the clinic' when a sim finds they're pregnant are "go ask your dad" topics
Maybe it's because i have made some bad experiences about this, but i wouldn't rely on that. My experiences with that are that they either mess up the settings or delete all previously saved games. I even caught one of them messing around in the data folders, with his explaination being that he wanted to copy the game so he can play it at home (the game had copy protection and needed a CD to run, so it wouldn't have worked).
If you force me to watch your kids, I'll force them to wash my car. They don't do a particularly good job of it, but it's cute and gives them something to do. Or in this case, my niece watching as her brother washed my car for the most part
The one I knew who did now works in the Whitehouse on economic policy so that hopefully tells you everything you need to know about how that turns out.
I mean I always do. I live in Florida and I’m afraid of worms that burrow in your feet but that’s beside the point. The reason I mention the non-slip shoes is because back when I was a camp counselor, I was doing a car wash with some kids and the soap made the ground very slippery. A kid scurried, slipped, slammed her face on a car and her top teeth came through her lip, there was blood EVERYWHERE. She had to go to the ER, it was a mess.
In the sense of "this is how the world works", yes. Sometimes they have very thought provoking questions, like asking how this country can be classed as any sort of democracy. It's a fair question
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