Guess what... you can mod that too!
- Mod for a teen/YA/Adult Nanny. http://www.insimenator.org/index.php?topic=94248.0
- Christianlov also has a NPC nanny maker.

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Please I beg of you don't get me started on the "Nanny" ok what year is this? Ok 2014, I have had a long dislike of the Nanny since 2006. Why ?
That old lazy witch of a hag was late coming to take care of my favorite Sim Don Lothario and his Sim wife Rosa, first twins a girl and boy baby.

That was my very first experience with the darn Nanny and Social Worker, who took the twins away Don and his wife cry 24/ 7 days on end.
After that happen I went on a hunt for a mod to stop the Social worker with her take children away action.
Before I found a mod I sometime created an elder in CAS or Body Shop , and move her into the home to join the family to care for the young children,she was like a grandmother to the Sims children.

I had just started playing the Sims so I was still in the stage of learning the game, I never forgot what happen and the Nanny was the real culprit of the whole mess, being late getting to the house.
Plus the nanny would pee on the floor and leave it for my hard working Sims to clean up. So lazy she stay busy in the hot- tub or pool not during her job, but still getting pay by my Sims.

I ended up taking that teen nanny out of my game...I was experiencing glitches, and bugs..one day, she even threw a kitten in the garbage.

What?! What happened after she threw it in the garbage? I've never tried the mod myself because I use the game nanny far to infrequently to add yet another mod. I wonder if the other ages are glitched or if it just didn't like something else in your game. Mods can be a right drama queen if they load with another they don't care for.

Depicting the cafeteria workers in uni as old ladies was pretty stereotypical as well. The way they stereotype, I'm surprised they didn't dress Brandi Broke up like a redneck.

I had a nanny KIDNAP a baby; she was holding it when her car arrived - I have a pic of her in the car holding the baby but with both arms out like she was driving! Then there was the dad who was holding his reeking screaming baby, guess it was so nasty it stuck to him when he took out the trash, and he "accidentally" threw the baby away. Both the babies then appeared in the street.

"It smelled so bad I thought it was trash! Guess I need new glasses." XD

I don't really hate the nanny, but I have some custom careers in my game, and one of them has really long hours. The parents (both in this career) left and the nanny arrived, before school. Then the kids left for school, the nanny left and didn't come back. The social worker came and took the kids before the parents got home from work. This was so annoying, I exited without saving a few times, but it happened every time, so I had to move a sim in to be an 'au pair' instead of using the nanny.

The nanny is incompetent aswell though!

I use BoilingOil's Kids and Pets Unattended so I don't have to put up with the useless bitch. The nanny was shit at taking care of my babies and toddlers, and I almost had a toddler taken away because of the stupid nanny (the stupid nanny neglected the toddler to play with the toy train and set herself on fire. The fire department didn't come because there wasn't an alarm outside and the toddler couldn't call the fire department. I exited without saving because I didn't want the toddler taken away for being home alone with the nanny dead from fire and the parents at work.) I tried to dismiss a nanny and she just spent the rest of the time poking the parent that was home. Both parents had been at work for a period of time, and I always had trouble getting the nanny to follow the right schedule. I hate, hate, hate the nanny and no thread will make me like her.

I've reading it (even though I don't plan to use it, I'm fine with them being elders) but to be honest, one of the requeriments is killing off the existing nanny!
That's a bit harsh on the poor woman, don't you think



I've had butlers kidnapping babies. I've had townies kidnapping babies. (Yeah, my hoods are full of fearless criminals )
So this is not a nanny issue, I'm afraid.

The nanny always brings back the baby. So the parents can get some rest.. Love the dad story!

I used that mod in the past and just setting "is ghost" flag in SimPE for all the current nannies had the same effect. Although there have been times when I wanted to kill the nanny for all the shit she does.

I now use BoilingOil's Kids and Pets Unattended so I don't have to deal with her at all.

I've heard of puppies/kittens being kidnapped as well. Some master criminal is running both a slave trade and a dogfighting ring!

I hadn't even noticed that!

I had a puppy kidnapped a couple of days ago, but as soon as she left the lot with the puppy, it appeared back on the lot.

You can avoid the nanny or having a stay at home parent for some families. One parent in Law Enforcement career and the other in Athletics. At level 10 LE works on Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Friday. Level 10 Athletics works Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Not sure if any other 2 are this convenient. The kids will always have a parent around to help with study skills or other parenting without the hassle of trying to do it all in the evening. No need to hire a maid, keeping up needs for everyone is much easier too. If they have kids while still working their way up, occasionally have a parent call in sick.

yeah, it must have been conflicting. This was a big while ago. That teen started playing with the kitten..and it got stuck in her hand. I didn't noticed.
She went to throw the newspaper in that wall garbage thing?(forgot the name) and there was no more kitten in her hand...she threw everything out. lol
Kitten's motives started to decay badly..but i could not find him anywhere. I ended up cheating to bring him back.
He was there on the lot but..in like..another dimension lol
Only after i brought him back, back, I saw what happened..as the teen did the same thing the day after. This time though, I was watching her close and could stop it.

I might try it again someday, as it was still cool to have a teen babysitter, but I am a bit afraid. lol



I downloaded this, but it does not seem to have any effect in my game. Sims still whine about leaving the young ones alone for an outing, or just anytime.
I've read the info before downloading, and it says to load this mod last..so I renamed it zzzzzBO - Kids & Pets Unattended, because I do have Inteen.
Still no luck.

Opps..nm, it works now...for some reasons.

I try to avoid nannies, but will use them when it makes sense to. I've had the good one several times, to make up for the very first one, who was very bad. But it was only partly her fault, because the very first nanny I ever hired was to take charge of the Newson twins, the first time I ever played the Newsons, and I made some basic mistakes and hadn't evolved any of the strategies that have rendered toddlers less stressful since. I didn't know how handy visitors can be and the Newsons had no Influence points anyway, I didn't have any mods to allow children to do any child care or let toddlers be less dependent, didn't know about pet beds and food, and had two cribs upstairs and down, for a total of four, so the nanny would be constantly running up and down stairs moving an exhausted Garrett from one to the other.

She ignored Georgia. It was terrible. I think the only time she ever touched that child was to pull her out of her crib and leave her on the floor, or to put her into the crib only to wake her up immediately to move her to another one. She lived on the bottles strewn all over the house. Garrett was fed constantly, bathed two or three times a day, played with, moved from high chair to high chair, and his diapers always got changed, but poor Georgia could wallow in filth and die screaming for all that nanny cared! Gavin was trying to hold down a job, so he and Ginger would get home, with a couple of motives in the orange or red, to a house that looked like it had been hit by a fallen space capsule full of baby bottles and a little sister who had been screaming hopelessly for a diaper change for hours, often at the top or bottom of the stairs so no one could use them, and had probably recently thrown up from eating spoiled milk. Half the time before Gavin had to leave for work was spent throwing motive fits. Then Gavin would escape to work about the time the children got home, and poor Ginger would have to deal with it all until he returned (still tanking multiple motives), at which point he still wasn't much help.

Garrett was in college before that nanny stopped calling and asking to talk to him, too. She was always refused.

The entire family was so traumatized by those three days of nanny hell, they all became nannyphobic, and have insisted to their spouses that under no circumstances would their children be left with a nanny. Ginger and Gavin didn't recover from the trauma till they grew up, and Ginger spent a lot of her adult life in a fairly fragile state.

It's too bad there's no mod for a variety of nannies, some old, some young, some in between.

I tried to end services yesterday I think my sim told her to leave 3 times before she eventually left - she did not want to be fired!

I thought of another time when nannies can be a PITA .... when I forget that I have ACR set at the highest levels in a household. Boy, can those defaults be frisky! Even with very low levels of autonomy or woohoo proclivities, I have to watch a nanny to make sure she's paying a little more attention to the kids and a little less attention to the employer.

It has led to a few scenes that cannot be unseen. Not quite as bad as Mrs. C with a high mojo level (and fortunately, not nearly as destructive to my game), but still a little disconcerting.

Well, I was pretty happy with my nanny today, sorry about this. lol
I even asked my sim to end the maid service, as the nanny would do everything anyways.
Nawww..I almost took pictures, but i didn't I should have....
The first thing nanny did was head to one of the kid's bed, and make bed.
Baby was asleep in his crib..nothing to do with him then.
(I hired her while mom is still on maternity leave)

Then, nanny went around, and made all beds. One other kid, and the parent's.
She went to pee after that!, and clog the toilet...it was about to happen anyways. lol
I send the mom serve hamburgers around same time as nanny went to the bathroom...
Baby wakes up, and is in need of a diaper change. Nanny wnet immediatly, and changed him.
But then watching mom cook, I see her stop everything , and idle.
I looked at the action top left, and it says.."recieve baby"

Nanny wanted to hand Alfredo to her. As soon as mom gets to hold her son, nanny heads off to the bathroom, to clean up the mess the clogged toilet did.
Impressed yet?
She could have put baby on the floor as well, but instead..brought him to his mom.

She then went outside, and play a bit of shooting hoops. came back to clean the kitchen counter (after burgers were done making) and then I called household to eat.
Mom and nanny chatted at the table like friends. It was cool to see.

That was the first day of nanny at the Martin's.
Seeing nanny would do everything, I canceled the maid...who was always complaining anyways.

How exactly is your nanny this competent? In my game she pisses herself so much she seems to need a diaper underwear change herself. Or maybe she could take cooking classes instead of making my kitchen look like a melted nuclear reactor. And good grief, I better get rid of the TV and the computer if I want her to do anything but watch horror movies while the baby's squealing - not sure if it's because of the diapers, her growling stomach, or the spooky faces on TV. I needed to hire a maid to clean up after her - and a stay-at-home parent to berate her!

I do not know.
I tip her every time she does great, good nanny, goood. But many told me, that it changes nothing for them. I only do it because..because! With all horror stories I've heard about them, when mine does great, it is worth 100$. lol
For the rest, I do not know. Like I am saying in my first post, I only had good experiences, and I just cannot relate to those who do not like nannies.
I guess, one of the thing to do, would be to make her selectable, and then fix her personality, skills..to your likings? (I'd use SimBlender)

I am not a huge fan of "entertainments" for my sims..you know, like pool tables and big things. lol
I have tv's in some houses, some don't even have one..My sims read, chat and play together. I have a computer that has the play games options made into non autonomous.
It might be easier at my sim's house/apartments, to stay focused on kids

Anytime I've used a nanny I would say they fall someplace in between those two extremes. I have had a nanny's start a couple of fires- so always turn the stove around. I have had nannies sit and watch movies while the baby or toddler screamed with green fumes, I've had nanny's pee on the floor, stand like a statue doing nothing until payment time, I've had them loop a toddler between highchair and floor because the child was tired and they could not work that out, so instead they went to feed the child, but the child would not eat. - put highchair in inventory. I've also had many's who have done there job okay and occasionally done there job well enough that they put a toddler on the potty and cleaned. That was always like winning something, a wow look at that moment, not a yes this is how it works.

I've never had a nanny putting a tot on the potty. That would be awesome.