I was going through screenshots from an old save and forgot how funny this was lmao. Read the damn room, Han-seol! Also I love how you can tell she’s pissed in the first pic without even seeing her face.
“You proved my point” is such a stupid cop out of an argument too.
I put the “anyone can comment” flair because I figured it could help if a parent gave their POV since I’m not one yet and might be in the wrong. Also I’m writing this at 1am and upset so sorry if I’m rambling lol. Also sorry if you comment and I don’t see it right away because like I said it’s 1am. This’ll be long because I always talk too much, so **TL;DR: lead teacher put a blanket in the crib with a 4 month old, I asked if the baby was too young and she told me I was overstepping as a new person.**
I’m 23 and a newer ECE. I just got my degree in Early Childhood & Childhood Ed (I want to teach elementary, but I unexpectedly love ECE right now). I just started as a floater in a new center. I left my previous center because I had an incident where a child eloped (center admitted they were in the wrong), but now I’m pretty paranoid and hyper vigilant about safety because of the incident. I’m terrified of things like SIDS and anaphylaxis so I’m constantly studying and doing trainings.
I mostly float in the toddler and preschool rooms, but today I was assigned 1 hour in the infant room to cover a break. There are 2 leads in that room, one went on break and the other was in the room with me. I’ve never worked with her before but we’ve exchanged small talk on breaks. She’s in her 30s I think and less friendly than the other lead, but I think she’s just focused on her tasks and that’s fine. But anyway it was nap time for a few of the babies, and I noticed the lead putting a 4 month old (let’s call her A) to sleep with a fuzzy blanket. A had a sleep sack on and a pacifier, nothing else in the crib except the blanket. Again, I’m not a parent, but I do know the ABC method and pretty much all the safe sleep guidelines since I’m so paranoid about it, and I’m pretty sure it’s not advised to have blankets in the crib at that age. (It’s so scary looking at my own baby pictures, I’m a newborn in my crib with stuffed animals, blankets and everything! And that was 2003! But I’m glad there’s more awareness now)
Anyway I was super nervous to say something but when the lead stepped over the gate and came into the main area I said “hey sorry but I just wanted to make sure, isn’t A too young to sleep with a blanket? Again I just want to make sure so I know if I ever have to put her down. I was always taught 12 months.” (I can be a people pleaser so I tend to use a lot of “I’m just curious” “I’m sorry” etc when I say stuff) She looked pissed and told me to go over to the little kitchen area and said in a low voice “Zenphiree, you really need to know your place as a new teacher here. You don’t know A’s parents or anything about these babies, I’ve already spoken with them about this. This is a serious overstep. Okay?” (Still not sure what she meant by “spoken with them about this,” like did the parents ask her to use the blanket or something?? Idk)
I was mortified. I hate any kind of confrontation with people I don’t really know. At that point I just wanted the other lead to come back so I could go to my next classroom because now it was extremely awkward. But I will say, I went to change a diaper and I saw her take the blanket out, so🤷🏻♀️The lead ignored me for the rest of the hour I was there. Then later our lunch breaks overlapped and I sat down in our staff area and she immediately left and closed the door hard (not slammed but still). I’ve already felt like the leads act like an exclusive club and don’t want TAs or floaters around them, but this just made it worse. And I don’t want to seem like THAT TA/floater who acts like a know it all. I’m sure those people can be really annoying.
I still feel like I was right though?? I always heard they should be alone, on their back, in the crib with only a sleep sack and a pacifier if they use one until at least 12 months. Either way I was just asking to make sure A was safe and so I would know what to do or what not to do in the future. At my old center they didn’t have anything in the crib with them until they moved to Toddlers.
What would you have done in this situation? Did I overstep? I’m dreading work tomorrow (even though I’m not scheduled in Infants tomorrow) but I’m trying to tell myself it was right to speak up.
Edit: I’m embarrassed to admit I did cry over this on the way home😳But I also just remembered to point out that I believe this lead did do another thing that’s not recommended, the Preschool 2 room is across from Infants so we can see in the room. I saw the lead put a 7 month old on a boppy style pillow and prop a bottle for her to drink while the lead cleaned up the room.
Now their friendship bar is all the way in the red.
Now I’m seeing more paywalled stuff for TS3 too and it sucks. I can’t think of any other gaming community that does this!
(Yes I know the devs allow early access mods, but I’m still gonna complain idc)
I just bought both Paralives and InZoi today. I’m having a lot of fun with them! I thought this would be a cute idea. This is Noel and Kentaro (and their little daughter Koharu). I originally made them in TS4 for my Disney Legacy.
I tried to keep them accurate across the games but I’m not great at creating characters lol. Also they don’t have a baby in InZoi because by the time I got to that game it was 2am and I was too tired🥲But I did have fun playing all these games today, I genuinely love life simulators and I’m so happy I have all these to play! Each one has strengths and weaknesses and I think competition will be good for the genre. Can’t wait for Paralives to improve!
Also normally my TS3 game doesn’t look that fucking ugly, I’m sorry💀My reshade effects weren’t working and I had a hard time un-puddingifying their faces for some reason. I’ve gotten pretty good at making good TS3 sims but I didn’t want to spend hours in CAS this time lmao. TS3 will forever be my favorite but holy shit CAS takes forever with the lag.
I’ve been hearing this sentiment for like 15 years now. Shut up already. I know someone’s gonna come in the comments and say “well it’s true!” Every economy has its issues and it’s not a bad thing to point that out, but “it’s gonna get much worse” doesn’t offer any valid solutions and only makes people miserable. That’s the difference between expressing concern and being a doomer.
I want to ask them which economy they mean, but knowing Reddit they’re probably talking about the US.
Maybe I need to take my sticker’s advice because I won’t be touching grass if the mood feature actually ends up working😂I’ll be playing TS3 all day!
I paid a ridiculous amount (eBay) but I knew I’d probably never find one again so I treated myself🥲I’m so freaking hyped right now. I really hope the mood feature will work but I do have a 2021 laptop so not sure. I still think it’s awesome that it changes color even when it’s not synced with a sim’s mood.
This one is Saffron Bay. Lighting mod is by Boring Bones.
Now it’s time to make some townies!
I posted about the Moonlace Dress, but it sadly didn’t end well :( It was too high poly, which fucked up the whole mesh when I actually got it into TSRW. *sigh* Then I had several more fails, and finally I did well with this one! Super proud. I’m going to stick to maxis match cc for now, since alpha seems to be higher poly and cause more problems for me.
It has all the LODs (though there’s a little hole in the LLOD), base game compatible, and 5 presets from the TS4 version. There’s one recolorable preset and 3 channels. I did a lot of testing for the morphs, so it should look completely fine on fat and muscular sims. It’s not enabled for pregnancy (haven’t figured it out yet lol), though I can’t imagine a pregnant sim would be very comfortable in it anyway😂
It’s only for YA-Adult Female, but you can of course enable it for Teen and Elder using NRAAS. Just be aware that can cause a weird black ring around their neck (happens to most cc clothes on wrong ages, not just mine!).
Repost bc the image quality was terrible last time.
Mom is a workaholic too😩My poor accidental alien baby.
This is the Moonlace Dress by Gorillax3. To my surprise it’s turning out pretty well (my last few conversions have all sucked even though I’m having fun with it lmao) so I think I’ll put it up for download! I still need to do the texture and morphs though so we’ll see if it ends up being a mess💀
In the future I want to try converting MM stuff and see how it looks in the game. I tend to prefer alpha in ts3 because I feel like it fits the style, but I love MM so much in TS4 so I’ll see how it goes.