What happens if you raise a child without ANY interaction in The Sims 4? 

Pretty sad that Neglect's aspiration as a young adult is to be a Super Parent, to give their children the upbringing that they didn't receive

Illegal experiments made legal through The Sims 4

It's pretty interesting because there definitely was a difference between neglect and not neglect and that was their moods. Neglect was really sad all the time and was often in a really bad mood but that just doesn't have any long term consequences in the sims 4.

The child that looks more like Eliza not being neglected and the child that looks more like Bob being neglected is sending me into a lore spiral

At least Neglect got privacy. Not Neglect only had that toddler fence his whole life 😂

It is kinda eerie how this played out. Neglect really had the kind of path someone who was neglected may have. Starting out trying their best, trying to earn love/attention. Though by teen years comes inevitable struggle in school and life. Then upon growing up more, wanting to become a super parent upon recognizing their abuse. Like, I didn't expect it to play out so realistically, I expected just shenanigans.

"I'm not like other girls - I'm horrifically worse" is another stellar Plumbella quote.

Challenges like this are fun but IMO it does drive home how lacking Sims 4 gameplay is that the differences in experience didn't really seem to shape their personalities in any significant way or have any lasting concequences.

I wonder how Neglect would've faired if we'd given him a Blarffy for communication and let him keep it throughout his childhood

as someone who was neglected as a child, this is kind of, makes sense, i love how you cheer neglect on, and say he’s doing a good job, it kinda makes me feel good about myself, i feel i tried my best as a child and it was never enough but it wasn’t really my fault

next video is gonna be something like "do sims prefer the cloth mother or the wire mother?"

"Nothing much happens." Sums up everything gameplay wise in TS4. Thanks a lot EA. You broke the "Life Simulation" of a life simulation game. **insert side-eye**

Ah I've played a neglected child storyline - though the child did interact with other people aside from their parents (mainly the other people that stayed at the motel or park when they were homeless) It eventually morphed into a 'can a child take care of toddlers' challenge when their parents had babies back to back and mom split to go live with her firefighter boyfriend while dad was passed out drunk all day - and turns out they really can! The only thing the child couldn't really do was bathe them, but living in a crappy motel, half the time plumbing didn't work anyway (After a few more trials and tribulations, including dad going to jail, eldest kid dropped out of school and worked to keep them in a nicer motel before eventually saving up to afford a decent apartment. She's a YA working on her GED on the side while her siblings are able to attend middle and high school. She'll go to culinary school afterwards)

This reminds me of the Nature VS Nurture theory in sociology, like feral children.

I kind of want Neglect as a returning character now

"I'm not like other girls. I am HORRIFICALLY worse." Isn't that just a whole ass mood

I love that “A child” 5:20 is still referenced. It lives rent free in my mind and always will.

I'd love to see the results of this in the other Sims games.

sees prompt: wow that's so interesting!!! sees execution: NO POOR BABY MY HEART IS IN SHAMBLES

"it is the maddie v kenzie" flashbacks to when Melissa was talking about how great of a dancer her DAUGHTER (singular) is

I did the same thing with twin boys 💀 Nature (the neglected toddler) was completely cut off from the rest of the house, only a bed and table in his colourless room with one window and one bathroom (for a parent to bath him when necessary) and zero toys. He was such a curious toddler, his imagination worked overtime, he somehow taught himself skills (idk how) and he was so happy whenever he'd see one of his parents. He was patient and relatively happier than his other brother (like content with being alone in a grey room for all of his life) Nurture (the non neglected toddler) literally had everything - a massive room inside the house with every toy and decoration and attention from his parents - they taught him skills and were, well, parents to him lol. He was a tantrum throwing, impatient little brat who threw his food off his high chair every chance he got and he screamed and cried like a freaking banshee everyday. Safe to say I was baffled considering it was a simulation game 😂

'What would happen if you just didn't interact with a child' - Me in any situation

I feel bad if my Sims don't interact with their children, so I always have them spending time together reading or playing together. If the parents are busy, I have the kids nearby playing with a toy or the family pet. xD

build challenge idea: when you need a specific piece of furniture (eg chair) you go to the comfort section in BB and randomise a number, which will give you the furniture from that section you have to use

"eliza is expecting" just made me think of hamilton and the "then I remember my Eliza’s expecting me... not only that, my Eliza’s expecting" 😭

Need a part two where neglect raises a child🥺 how he wished he was raised

The way I laughed as she built the wall to stop the kids talking to each other😂 haha

Wonder what it'd be like on the other Sims games.

(Not so) Fun fact: A pretty common side effect of childhood neglect is stunted growth, mentally *and* physically. The slowed mental maturing is pretty well known and expected by most people in the modern day who know anything about how children work (You know, they kinda need guidance from parents and role models to learn how to human, essentially). However, kids' bodies can literally experience notably slow bodily growth and development, as well as other physical complications, as a result of poor treatment such as neglect*. So, realistically, while they would still technically be twins, the rather morbid reality is that the idea of Neglect and Not Neglect "no longer being twins" isn't as far-fetched as most might think, as mentally and physically it would be unsurprising for Neglect to look and act "younger" than his brother. But The Sims, probably thankfully, doesn't have this level of detail. * Extra (not so) fun info: I believe I've also heard that things like this happen when children are raised believing themselves to be younger than they were, e.g. an "8" year old who's actually 13 matching more closely to the development of their believed age than their real one. Though, I'm struggling to find a source for this or remember where exactly I heard it (I believe it was from my A-Level psych teacher but I can't be sure) so take it with a grain of salt.

A better name for Not Neglect would be Control Group lol

I'm surprised Neglect didn't get the mini fridge or a cooler. He's doing good with a large fridge.

Good to know that the inability to improve your grades in High School Years without sending them alone is still active.

“oN lE LiNe oUi Oui If YoU wIlL” Plumbella is iconic

If you have the infant pack, you should do this again, because you can have actual bonus traits and family bonds depending on parents interactions.

I liked sims 2 because if you had two parents and one parent neglected a kid it would have a bad relationship on the child later on

It has been such a stressful week at work, and this popping up on my lunch break is exactly what I needed 💜

It's fascinating really how close Neglect and Not Neglect were in the end. I mean, Not Neglect definitely had a better overall upbringing, but their school performance really was nothing to write home about and was about the same as Neglect's. Not Neglect was responsible a lot of the time yet never actually achieved it as a trait, which is baffling. Meanwhile, Not Neglect received zero interaction and honestly ended up pretty alright.

“He’s tryin’ his best! God bless his little cotton socks..” this line

We stan a thorough queen, making the challenge a randomized controlled challenge.

Oh see when first saw the title, I thought we were doing an experiment to see how long a baby could survive on it's own. Food could already be prepped in the fridge or just out on the table, they could have access to at least one object that gives a trait gain, and we just lock the door and speed up till it either ages up or gets taken away but there are no adults. Just the baby/ toddler.

If you view the sims profiles in the friendship panel you can see the titles they have for their parents and siblings!

as a neglected child I think this was pretty accurate

You just went full Dudley and Harry on these kids

Oh! You could've called the babies Dudley and Harry! And had the toddler room under the stairs haha

This would be a really interesting one to do in the other games as well!

I have a save file where my sims neglect their children all the time and the only thing they talk to are their weed plants and their only source of food is their sibling (bbq baby mod)

This reminds me of an challenge I started but never finished. Quality of Life. 3 Sims raised locked in three rooms. All get the same items (Ie. if one of them gets a toilet, they all get a toilet. If one gets a computer, they all get one) but one room gets the lowest quality version. One gets the highest quality. And the last room gets something of a quality right in the middle. They have NO interaction with anyone else and are locked in their rooms for their whole lives.

Therapy. Lots of therapy when they grow up. Signed, Spouse of an IRL neglected kid

*Makes a tunnel for the kid to go to school* *Forgets to add a door on the room side of the tunnel so the kid can actually use the tunnel*

It wasn't until embarrassingly recently that I raised pretty much all my sim kids this way cause I thought that was how raising kids works cause it's kinda how I grew up. Then I did the 100 baby challenge and started interacting with them cause it like, helps gain skills faster and then I genuinely had a full on eureka moment of like, what if they actually likes eachother?? Just for the craic like be friends?? And now I enjoy the Sims a lot more.

So Jesse, if you want real life "experiments" : I was "Neglect" in high school (living alone at home) but focused all my energy on school (i'm also on the spectrum so i was not really interested in social interactions, which helps) and got valedictorian. So thumbs up to Neglect and all the other "Neglects" who made it on their own !

I loaded up my sims and was looking for a background vid to listen to while I built so THANK YOU

locked doors aren't working for me either and in fact most of the time everyone just walks through walls, almost as if out of spite.

Betty & Eliza are both nicknames for Elizabeth

This is like the "other side" of my toddler grow-up challenge, where you control a toddler and try to make it to adulthood. Considering how much you provided for Neglect in this game, it's actually pretty hard the AI to screw up so much that he would die or get taken away... but then I've watched enough uncontrolled sims in general to know they can usually at least stay alive... but not always. XD My toddler grow up challenge runs on normal or long lifespans with a house full of uncontrolled adults, exceptions being initially giving the adults jobs if you want, paying bills (money cheats are fine as this isn't a money challenge), and calling a repairman on broken items until the challenge kid is a teen and the teen must do all repairs themselves... oh, and baking a birthday cake for the toddler/child if you don't want to wait out their lifespan. Whatever simoleons the kid earns before graduation they get to take with them out of the challenge (I keep track of their earnings on paper). A high chair is required for the toddler part because without one, there's too much of a risk the toddler will starve. Usually I have specific goals they need to complete before aging up too, like max all toddler skills, max all child skills and aspirations (and can only age up while having an A grade), and max one skill and finish one aspiration while a teen (and can only age up while having an A grade). Something you mention about the grades being slow in this video: going to the actual high school seems to slow school progress waaaay down. Sending teens to school on their own and having them set to Study Hard gets their grades up much faster (and the Good Schools lot trait will boost it even more). They need to be in a decent mood to have the best chance of going up a grade as well, much like jobs and promotions.

If your sim has the self assured trait, always choose the "confident painting" option, you'll get higher quality paintings out of it

I think Neglect's random friends could be firefighters

EA needs to bring us generational trauma in the next update B)

Next video, she's gonna raise a Sim with a cloth mother with no food and wire mother with food lol

My mam already did this experiment when raising me, and the answer is that I turned out okay-ish

The Pancakes seem like the kind of parents who would actually do this

Ha ha ha this was so fun, I would've liked it if you randomised their traits just to see if neglect would have got positive or negative traits

this was the perfect time to name the twins subject 1 and subject 2

conspiracy theory: jessie planned this whole video just to say "you're on your own, kid"

Rofl I love that you brought up the gamer-girl headphone topic, it's so true.

This is my first time watching, you really know how to captivate an audience lol- i was super entertained

I wish they forced traits on unhappy kids like in the Sims 3, the sims in the Sims 4 still feel like they have 1/10th of the personality they had in Sims 3. I think it'll only get worse in the future too, I think they're focusing more on aesthetics and less on AI for project Renee.

You are on a ROLL babe, loving the content!!

'what would happen if you just didn't interact with a child' i can think of a lot of things, actually

SAVE THEM TO THE GALLERY, I WANNA PLAY WITH THEM

“you’re on your own kid” by taylor swift

"What would happen if you just didn't interact with a child?" [*points at myself*]

11:32 I don't normally laugh when I watch TS4 videos but this whole video made me cackle so much

Absolutely emotional over how Neglect may have been neglected by his sim parents, but he was very loved by his creator Jessica. Didn’t come into this video expecting to draw such a strong metaphor from the sims to how I feel about my own childhood and relationship with God, but He do be movin in mysterious ways bestie 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes my locked doors don’t work for animals and sims sometimes Neglect’s one friend was the monster under the bed 😂

Only an 18 second intro..that's never happened before 😅

please do this in the sims 2 or 3 (I’m sure the kid will just get taken away but it’ll be a good laugh)

if you just build a seperate house and lock the door CPS can't get in.

I do this inadvertently all of the time. I pick one kid and no matter what that's the kid I play with

why does neglect literally have the same origin arcs of most love interests in nearly all fantasy novels??!!!

Sims team did this challenge in sims 2 with Lilith and Angela

Neglect made friends with the monster under the bed because he needs someone to connect to.

I had a mermaid sim cheat on her mermaid husband and she had twins, only one was a mermaid so I had that one in the main house being raised like normal and the other one was locked in a tower. She didn’t go to school or anything so her bar was fully in irresponsible when she became a teen

Me, a social worker who works with neglected children: Well, it's not wrong, but it's also not quite right (take from that what you will).

I can’t believe that you missed the opportunity to call them Harry and Dudley. Also, why do I try so hard and get stressed out with toddlers if this is the outcome??

Missed opportunity to have Eliza and Bob be antisocial and have the hate children aspiration

Omg your commentary is HILARIOUS

I accidentally did something like this with two infants, there were twins and I was trying to take care of both of them along with one toddler. There were four adults in the household. One of the infants had the wiggly trait and could not go to sleep for the life of her (I didn't know about the ways to get her to sleep), and was always angry or sad, and always had at least two low stats. I aged both of them up the wiggly one got the unhappy infant trait but the other one got top notch infant 💀 and now every single child in the family except that one got top notch infant-

Neglect thriving through adversity

TY FOR SPEAKING ON THE HEADPHONES! i thought it was only me who found it uncomfy when ur hair is pressed down by the headphones

this would be better done in the sims 2

I went through a phase for a few years where I had eclairs for my birthday instead of cake.

this feels like a behind the scenes for a sims 2 machinima

havent watched it yet but feel called out. i stopped playing the sims recently because every game unintentionally turns into my childhood trauma simulator

I like how Not Neglect is the kid that ended up looking like Eliza, and Neglect is the one looking like Bob lol

This would be interesting to do this again with the new updates

I don't usually like cake either, but I love the frosting!

I think when high school years came out they made the short lifespan shorter as well, which cant help with the grades issue

jesse 'the ones who walk away from omelas' ing her experiment child has me cracking up

You are not alone. I like having bedroom doors locked to everyone but who's room it is, but still, I see people still enter the damn rooms