Baby/child home alone

[Dea73]

I've always thought it's weird that you leave the kid/s home alone. The other parent should take the kid/kids along with them when leaving the house in a baby carrier or stroller maybe?

 

[Zen_the_Ogre]

Unfortunately it seems they do Pam's school of parenting. Leave the kid fifth of gin and use the diaper money for oasis casino.

But yeah as a baby you should have the momo carrier and when they are a toddler give you the option to have them follow you around(they just walk around you and zoom every once and a while). I mean imagine getting knocked out in the dungeon and your kid carried you out like baby Hercules

 

[FlyingCatPhillips]

I think it would be nice if your spouse took the kid/kids along with them. Of course as the player, you cannot take the kid to the mines or anything like that. Maybe have an option were you can take the kid and you can spend the day, fishing, foraging you know safe stuff; which for monster farm people would also mean home early too.
But having the player care for the kid might be an over the moon stretch. I do like @Dea73 idea though. Plus, wouldn't it be so sweet seeing your in game spouse pushing a stroller. Just think about how happy penny would be pushing a stroller and teaching her own kid at the library... It would be cute!

 

[Laissez_Faire_Farming]

I find this topic really interesting. Especially how to raise the kids according to our different cultures or country we came from.
Let's be respectable each people's opinions on that.

I agree that we should take care of our toddlers... sure, we should carry our strollers... but NOT ALL THE TIME.

Also, personally, I love seeing my kids being independent walking around in Stardew Valley, similar to European and Asian kids.
Maybe I would love to see my kids foraging mushrooms or fishing for themselves as a hobby. –Maybe seeing them reading alone in the library.
I don't need my spouse to look after them. I imagine if I were married to Sebastian or Abigail, the kids would grow independent and wander around in the forest alone.
If I were married to Penny or Eliott, maybe the kids would read many books at the Library. You get ideas of what kind of activities they would do.

Anyway...Stardew Valley is a pretty safe place to raise our kids...as long you are not activating a Dark Shrine with a Strange Bun...

 

[Zen_the_Ogre]

I don't know I think parents are over protective or survival instinct of children has gone to fluff. Activities I did after school got out and I did the basic check in. Use dragnets to catch frogs fish shrimp out of the creek/swamp. Run traps for small game, ride my Honda fourwheeler, pick wild muscadines and blackberries, remove thorns after riding said fourwheeler into a briar patch, ride four wheeler some more, remove thorns again, go on midnight racoons hunts with my dad, listen to his vocabulary become colorful after chasing a hound casing a swamp rabbit, going frog gigging through the most cotton mouth ridden swamp in all of Arkansas, clean wild game and fish.

Those were fun times. So I think taking the kids in the mines would be alright as long as the stay close and possibly have a slingshot

 

[Laissez_Faire_Farming]

@Zen_the_Ogre
The mines? mmmm
Harvey would scold me if I let the kids wandering around in the mines. LoL
I really want to see that dialogue. It would be funny.

 

[Zen_the_Ogre]

@Zen_the_Ogre
The mines? mmmm
Harvey would scold me if I let the kids wandering around in the mines. LoL
I really want to see that dialogue. It would be funny.

For some reason I picture the kid in a commando vest dragging you and linus out of a viscous dust sprite swarm. Harvey comes up sees this. "Who said you can go in the mines". Whoosh and the kid runs Harvey chasing.

 

[lilan castel]

I don't know I think parents are over protective or survival instinct of children has gone to fluff. Activities I did after school got out and I did the basic check in. Use dragnets to catch frogs fish shrimp out of the creek/swamp. Run traps for small game, ride my Honda fourwheeler, pick wild muscadines and blackberries, remove thorns after riding said fourwheeler into a briar patch, ride four wheeler some more, remove thorns again, go on midnight racoons hunts with my dad, listen to his vocabulary become colorful after chasing a hound casing a swamp rabbit, going frog gigging through the most cotton mouth ridden swamp in all of Arkansas, clean wild game and fish.

Those were fun times. So I think taking the kids in the mines would be alright as long as the stay close and possibly have a slingshot

You have a point.

 

[FlyingCatPhillips]

My thinking did not go beyond the kid as a toddler, or baby...
A toddler walking with their parent would be nice, but maybe they could be a kid before venturing out on their own and having adventures. Until that time maybe they can have their wild adventures on the farm with the animals...

I tend to be an over protective parent.... Probably because mine were not around and most of my childhood does not have an ampule supply of memories with them...
Unless you count them drinking in front of the TV.... They had their good moments too. But mostly drinking and vegging, consequently I have a strong dislike of alcohol and the TV. I am not speaking out of ignorance either.

That being said, if the kid has to go in the mines, they should be properly armed, would you be able to gift them a sword or slingshot? Maybe they can use the scarecrow as a training dummy from time to time too! That would be cute; just like Skyrim when you give the kid a dagger!

 

[Zen_the_Ogre]

@FlyingCatPhillips hmm maybe they could come home with a friendly bat, rockcrab or rainbow slime

 

[FlyingCatPhillips]

@FlyingCatPhillips hmm maybe they could come home with a friendly bat, rockcrab or rainbow slime

That sounds awesome!!!!!

 

[Magically Clueless]

i love the stroller idea for the babies, and for toddler i'm a fan of the kids walking with the spouse or wandering out on their own to forage or something. that'd be really cute and bring a lot more life to them!

 

[lilan castel]

i love the stroller idea for the babies, and for toddler i'm a fan of the kids walking with the spouse or wandering out on their own to forage or something. that'd be really cute and bring a lot more life to them!

I guess I can draw it. But not color it

 

[Dr. eeL]

I've mentioned this before in another thread, but I have a cat. Unlike my children, this cat needs to get fed. Also unlike my children, this cat gets to roam about my farm, usually hanging around me close enough to inadvertently kicked now and then. It's smart enough to know to stay within the limits of the farm and to come in at night. Unlike my children, the cat interacts with its environment, and will chase and pounce on grasshoppers. The cat is also acutely aware of when it is raining outside, and acts accordingly. So . . . it seems to me that it should not be too hard to program a toddler to have the same freedoms and opportunities as my cat. I don't think that a cat would stay in a stroller, but if my child did, I would be happy to push it to valley events. I could then lift him/her out of the stroller, and they could hang out with my wife, pretty much like they currently do at valley festivals.

 

[doki]

我喜欢婴儿推车的想法，对于蹒跚学步的孩子，我喜欢和配偶一起散步或独自外出觅食或其他东西的孩子。那真的很可爱，给他们带来更多的生命！
[/引用]yes，i think so！

 

[TetriLys]

I love this idea! It doesn't seem to be big enough that it would induce (many) bugs, and it would give us opportunities for some more dialogue and interactions with our spouses and children. I'll admit, when I had my first sdv baby I didn't leave the house for a week because I didn't know what to do lol.

 

[Freizeitfarmer]

I've always thought it's weird that you leave the kid/s home alone. The other parent should take the kid/kids along with them when leaving the house in a baby carrier or stroller maybe?

There could be another villager who become a godparent and takes care of the childs when the player and his/her spouse are doing something outside the farm.

 

[CausticValkyrie]

As somebody who grew up on a dead-end road in the country with several acres to wander, I'd actually be totally fine with leaving the kids home alone if they ever grew up to a child stage, but I agree, doing it when they're infants or toddlers does feel a little odd. They can't really take care of even basic needs at that age. I do wish the kids would follow your spouse when they go visit family if you're married to someone who does that. It would be super cute to swing by Robin's and see Sebastian's taken the kids to spend time with their grandparents, and the same for any of the other spouses that do family visits!

 

[ArtifactSpot]

I also think they should tag along with one of the parents. They are like 0-4 years old forever. Way too young to be alone. If the parent is somewhere dangerous like the mines, or want a date night at the saloon then be able to hire one of the villagers to babysit. Not to mention they never ever EVER get to have outdoor time. Save for a festival or two a season. I’d love for them to spend outdoor time on the farm too. Your spouse gets to, why not the kids?

 

[ArtifactSpot]

As somebody who grew up on a dead-end road in the country with several acres to wander, I'd actually be totally fine with leaving the kids home alone if they ever grew up to a child stage, but I agree, doing it when they're infants or toddlers does feel a little odd. They can't really take care of even basic needs at that age. I do wish the kids would follow your spouse when they go visit family if you're married to someone who does that. It would be super cute to swing by Robin's and see Sebastian's taken the kids to spend time with their grandparents, and the same for any of the other spouses that do family visits!

Awww! That would be so adorable! . So Sebastian, Maru, Sam, Alex and Shane that would work.