Nanny

Nannies are NPCs that take care of your Sims' children while they are at work during the day. Nannies can be hired at any time by phones through Call... > Service > Nanny. Your Sim can choose to hire the nanny on a one-time only basis, or they can have the nanny 'track their schedules' (their work hours), therefore hiring her during the times they are at work.

The nanny will take care of your Sims' children (bathing, feeding, changing, and interacting with toddlers and babies, and interacting with children), as well as tidy up the house by doing things like emptying the potty and making the beds. They can be fired (End Services) at any time, and a new nanny can be hired to replace them.

Nannies are always elders, and wear a conservative white blouse, gray button-up sweater, long plaid skirt, and bowling shoes. They can have any hairstyle, skin color, and personality.

A nanny can be interacted with, and therefore married, asked to move in, or killed off. But you wouldn't do that, now would you? [Note from an author: I hate nannies, I would gladly kill them! People, don't have both your sims work, have one be a homemaker to take care of the kids. They won't make TV dinners for your toddlers!]

The Nanny Necessity
Should a sim need to go downtown, or to work and is the only adult, elder or teen sim on the lot with the baby/toddler/child, a nanny must be called or the social worker will come for the offspring instead.

A nanny can be called up to come over once or to track the schedule of an adult to see when the child will be left alone. However, this schedule stays the same if the sim is promoted, so you will need to call the nanny again if this is the case.

Generally, once a sim has re-appeared, the nanny will leave, but sometimes they need a bit of persuasion.

Nanny Problems
Some nannies are more on-task than others, and careless nannies are apt to make meals and possibly start a fire, wet themselves, and neglect the children. There's also nothing to stop them stealing from the Money tree.

Such feats of child cruelty include repeatedly picking a baby up and putting it back- or on the floor or putting a toddler in and out of a high chair, and staring blankly at it. Others include making a TV dinner for a toddler that cant eat it, then walking off to pick the toddler up and down again.

Nannys can be also quite glitchy. They can become stuck on lots, multiply or simply refuse to leave even if the van shows up. In this case, the simplest solution is moveobjects on

Player Stories

 * One time I hired a nanny to take care of my toddler and twin boy and girl babies at a CAS family's house. The nanny tried to feed my toddler a TV dinner, put the babies on the floor, wet herself, refused to change their diapers, stole from the money tree, started a fire and was a general nuisance. AND THEN wen my sims came home, the nanny multiplied into TEN NANNIES! The nanny clones clogged the bathrooms, abused the children, would not let the real parents take care of the children and repeatedly stole fromt he money tree. And they still were multiplying! I called them all into a dooreless room and killed them. Now there are twenty three nanny ghosts haunting the lot.