Game guide:Teaching toddler skills (The Sims 3)

For the game guide for The Sims 2, see Game guide:Teaching a toddler all three skills in one night (The Sims 2).

This game guide is only for The Sims 3.

Teaching toddler skills can be tedious and take an unusually long amount of time. Not anymore! Here's a guide that will show you how to do it much more quickly. This tutorial is best completed with a Sim that has the Family-Oriented trait, as it allows the Sim to teach the toddler skills faster.

Cheat method

This is by far the easiest method, and it utilizes cheats to stop motive decay and allow a sim to teach the skills uninterrupted. This is best used for the Walking and Talking skills.

1. On your keyboard, hit Ctrl+Shift+C to open the cheat console.
2. Type "testingcheatsenabled true" without the quotes.
3. Hold down shift and click on the mailbox.
4. Select "Make all Happy".
5. Select "Make Needs Static". This will max out all the Sim's motives and keep them from decaying.
6. Teach the toddler skills, ignoring all unnecessary interruptions.

Legitimate Method

This requires a Sim with the Family-Oriented trait.

1. Start by using the motive-filling objects (bed, fridge) to make them completely happy.
2. Pick up the toddler.
3. Select the toddler toilet.
4. Select the action "Potty Train (toddler name)".
5. Repeat step 3, while ignoring smells and puddles, until the skill has been completely taught.
6. Go back to teaching the remaining skills, ignoring all unnecessary interruptions.

Trivia

• Whether the toddler toilet is full or not does not affect the toddler being able to use it. Even if it became so full that there were puddles everywhere, the "Potty Train (Sim)" interaction would still be usable.
• The toddler will say words right more often in the second half of the Learning to Talk skill meter.
• With World Adventures, toddler skill learning rate can also be amplified by the Incense Holder of Jun Pao from China.

See also

• Toddler
• Toddler skills
• Testing cheats