My Dream Job Babysitter
© 2008 Viva Media
This crude baby-sitting tutorial has the potential to be a fun, valuable learning experience, if you have the patience to figure it out. After you design your female teen avatar (there are no male options), you see a home that looks a bit like the top view of a home from the Sims. There are five rooms that you can view by moving the cursor. You start the simulation with $700 that you use to buy furniture and food. There are other hurdles that include passing a child development test at the education center. Some of the test questions seem poorly designed, and the text could use better US localization. For example, at one point, children are presented with, "The baby is like a chattering bird, mumbling and prattling all day long." Shopping is complicated by the fact that you don't know how much money you have, so you load up your shopping cart and continually run out of money, and background music is repetitive and rather strange. Despite these shortcomings, there is some good information about how babies develop that is great for anyone to know. But getting to that information requires a skill that any baby-sitter must have... patience. Created by Tukkon Studio for Viva Media.
$15, Windows
Teaches: babysitting, math, child development
CTR Rating: 70%