Lady Cougar-Trombone- LOL yes and yes it was. Even if you do stop them, turn your back on them even once and they do it if the sim is nearby. Thank goodness that can't do it over phone calls. Heck they'll even flat out confess they cheated at times and still try making up with the sim or flirting.

This is from the sims 3 this time. I'm so glad they don't do this in the sims 4. That's one feature I'm glad that wasn't brought back. However child care is the better in the sims 3 in my opinion.

Alice had finally put down her baby for the night. She was going to work out tomorrow and she needed all the time she could get to sleep. She slipped into bed with her husband and fell asleep. A few hour later, both were awakened by the crying of their son. His crying was much too loud for one parent to ignore so both ended up getting up to tend to him. They weren't the only ones though as their friends who also lived there got up as well. An actual line ended up forming as the 5 of them tried getting to the baby.

"But her down," yawned Alice. "I've got her."

"Nah I got him," said Luke.

"No, I got him." said Daniel.

"No. No. I've got him." said David.

"We can't all tend to him," said Martha who was holding the baby now. "I'll feed him. You all can go back to sleep."

"When he shuts up, that's the only way I'll be going back to sleep." said Luke.

Once the baby was fed and placed back into the crib, everyone parted ways and went back to sleep. The next day, everyone was up at their regular times only to stop whatever they were doing again when they heard the crying of the baby again. Daniel started to go back inside the house but then his girlfriend blew her horn at him signaling that they had to go to work. Daniel went on to work while Martha and Luke stayed home to crowd around the baby with David while Alice had already gone out.

"Why the heck are you two in here?" David said as he changed his son. "This is my baby!"

"He was crying so we came to see what was up." shrugged Martha.

"I don't need you two to care for him and weren't you guys in the kitchen?"

"Uh yeah but your son cries so dang loud!" complained Alice.

"I'm starving. Can I go now?" groaned Luke as he rubbed his stomach.

"No duh, genuis." Luke and Alice happily went on their way. As grateful as David was for his friends willing to look after his son, it often got annoying that once he went to go see about him everyone was in the way, lining up to see about the kid when they, the parents, were but a few inches or feet away and about to see about him. It was like the very moment he made a crying sound, they all came running.

So in the sims 3, your sims will pretty much come running whenever a baby cries. it doesn't matter if they're in a different room or not. It doesn't even matter if they're tired, starving, and about to wet themselves. It gets really annoying if you have a lot of sims in the house and they will all come and crowd the baby to tend to it. The only people who don't are the kids and my teenage sims will go to them every now and then. They mostly just ignore the baby.

While I do wish when a baby cries sims in the sims 4 would instantly run to it, replaying the sims 3 makes me wish the nearest sim would grab take care of the baby or the parents instantly would for both games. No such luck at times. In the sims 4, sometimes they just flat out ignore the baby except if they are in the room. The sims 3 has better child care EXCEPT when it comes to babysitters/nannies. Good thing they added a rabbit hole daycare in the sims 4. The nannies I've hired in the sims 4 aren't very good with the kids and will often ignore them. All they do is clean and spray under the bed. I even had a nanny go straight to bed. Since she wanted to sleep so much I locked her in. I heard the nannies in the sims 2 are the worst of the games where they're available.

The next chapter I'll do one based off of my experience with the babysitters in the sims 3 and then the nannies from the sims 4.