Oh wow, I want to do it, but I'm scared! D:

This sounds like an interesting challenge. I’ve had teens living by themselves so kids shouldn’t be too much harder I don’t think. I'll give this a go later.
I have a double aging mod and harder grades so mine will last 15 days.

I made mine a little differently in that I made a couple and gave them children with the dummy (paci) in CAS and moved the Dad out. Poor Dad I kind of forgot to change his clothes or give him a name...he's named F Thought I would try six kids. I don't think this could be harder then the Toddler mania challenge with an adult, nanny and 7 toddlers.

Aww, such a nice family! Good luck

Nothing has been said about the free computer, the FT perks or private school. I deleted the unopened computer and have been ticking the kid’s perks as they earned them. I'm on the third day now and will try for private school. The house is rather large and fancy as I built it as a request and had it sitting there. The bills are over a thousand so goodness knows what the repo man will take when he comes.
I've had that sleep chamber forever but never used it before. Lol mum got naked to go to sleep in there. So far I've been having the kids do as much fishing and block play as possible to make sure they are all friends so they can play red hands with each other. Red hands is the quickest way to raise fun. A little bit of baking, but I mostly let the school feed them.
Mum is Margaret after Margaret Mead and all the kids are named after science and scientists as well. The boys are Atom, Galileo and Isaac. The girls are Marie, Rosalind and Charlotte.

This looks like fun!

Would having the parent meditate instead of using the hibernation chamber work too?

To be honest, I've almost never used the meditate interaction, so I am not sure that kids wishing to talk to their parent would not interrupt the meditation
So if the parent would NOT stop meditating each time someone is distracting them, it is OK.

james dean

Where's the "Huh?" button?

haha I'm trying this with 7 kids
all different personalities
and i have the no social worker hack, do i have to take it out?

OMG that happened to me too!

This looks very interesting. Only, I can't install the mod as "The creator has not logged in to MTS for some time".
Should I download the mod? Or should I play without it? (Build a wall around the parent and only give them the essentials to survive)

I'm going to try it that way too. Build a wall around the parent, give them a fridge, counter, toilet, shower and bed (maybe be a bookcase. Then leave them with no door. :>D

Okay I did it. I put mom in a room with no door, fridge, bathroom etc and the kids in the rest of the house. It was easier than I thought. I built a modest house on a 2x2 lot, four kids, mid to low level furniture. I did give them the kids stove, and basic skilling items. I only had one that sank into the red. She was an active outgoing sim who wasn't having fun sitting in front of the tv to learn cooking. Her fun was real low so she wouldn't finish her homework. But even with that she only got down to a B+. I started having her jump rope and she got better.

Mom was too funny, I gave her the Humble computer so it could look like she was working. She broke it, tried to fix it and set it on fire. She managed to put the fire out and tinkered on the shower to build up her skills. The second time she tried she just electrocuted herself. lol No fire. All the kids managed to get in platinum just before aging up to teenage.

The repo man came twice and gave mom bad memories. He took a counter, toilet and the toy box which I replaced. I forgot kids get money with the telescope by finding planets, star etc.

If the only point of having Mom "locked up" is to keep the kids from being taken by social worker, is it OK to have the "no social worker" hack? After all, I AM watching them!

Can I replace things the burgler took? Can we have more than 7 kids? More kids means more fishing and painting = more money, but I wonder if they would use more than they could earn. With only 1 little oven (which doesn't fill a kid up, anyway) it seems like they would all be near-starvation all the time. But at least they wouldn't mind the mess.

I think the OP has the No social worker hack. I didn't want to install any hacks so I walled the mom up in a little room. My kids ate the muffin and no one got near starvation. They played, sleep and all except one got an A+ average. I might try it with more kids, next time. I think you could replace the stolen items with the same thing if your family has enough money. My kids made more money stargazing then they did painting, gardening or fishing. They didn't get enough fun from the fishing or gardening. Painting takes a long time to level up. I did have one or two of the kids make muffins and just leave them on the counters so they could eat them later or another kid who needed to sleep or fun up could eat. I even got a popup for each one saying they had a great week and hoped the next one would be as good. lol (or something like that)

Can kids "use" the tombstone to spawn more kids? If so, would be fun to give myself points if any of them pair up (they would have to really like each other)

Only issue: I'm using the super collection and it can't download package files. If someone could make the hibernator a sims 2 pack id love it

Feel like to point somthing out

You cannot hire Maid or Nanny. All the other service NPCs are allowed.
hmm other NPCs are allowed well the butler does all the jobs Babysit, Maid, Gardner and fix things so you tell me we can use him
he also makes food when people are hungry