Problem 1: How goes life for your sim? Are they making progress in their career goals, family goals, personal goals, or personal relationships? Have there been any new developments in your sim family? Did anything bad happen? For example, my sim forgot to pay the bills and the power got shut off...
Problem 2: Describe your sim child (or children). What traits do they have, and how do you see this demonstrated in their behavior?
Problem 3: This week you were introduced to Thomas & Chess' model on Temperament, where infants were categorized as either: Easy, Slow-to-Warm, or Difficult temperament. Judging from your infant or toddler's behavior, what temperament would you consider them to have? Do you believe your sim's parenting style is a good fit? Why is it important for there to be a good fit between parenting style and child temperament?
Problem 4: Identify and describe the following:
A. What is one thing your parent sim did to facilitate motor/physical development with their child?
B. What is one thing your parent sim did to facilitate cognitive development with their child?
C. What is one thing your parent sim did to facilitate emotional development with their child?
Problem 5: What are the major challenges your sim struggled with as a parent? The challenges are usually reflected in the biomarkers within the game (hungry, tired, emotional, hygienic...). Have any of these gotten easier as your child grew? Or did circumstances change to make it worse?
Problem 6: Overall, how does your experience with The Sims relate to the course materials we have covered thus far? Be sure to use at least tone direct reference from the book, and one direct reference from the lecture to answer this last question. Note, pick something that is separate from Temperament