It is indeed expect if you intend to save his game, you can continue at the point at which you stopped. So not in the most interesting new feature of "Sims 3":
I come back to my family and see that my little girl sits and plays with the toy. But it is no longer selected? What's going on now? Even I can not control it. Suddenly she is gone and I can only hear her laugh (which would be for "Sims 3 horror stories" -.-). Nagut I think you start off the game and start fresh, the same from the beginning that the whole family can not be selected only this time. Hmm ... I belese me once in a forum ... oh that seems to be already known (as are many other errors of the game, the one almost is bad) and a solution, it does not seem to give, only one times to save and to try again. Well, I give it a try out: nagut now I only have women and men, the children can be heard only in empty nurseries laugh (even a move is pointless). Then I store again and again: the whole family is no longer controllable.
So fun was equal to 0, so either you let the PC forever or you have to save the hope that one at all can do something or the kids are still playable (and children are indeed the reason why At length this game, otherwise it will not much new there).
Anyway, I'm after 2 days my back to the shop and have confidence the game returned (it went without problems, thus seems to be already known). So and now I'm going to make up my two missed days in real life! 'M Curious what happens next, but EA makes per expansion pack for The Sims 3, the game more and more broken and fixed it will not, dear is the same spoken of the next enlargement. Oh and the EA hotline can forget the verweißen equal on a board. But because you have an insane knowledge have to understand what is meant. Sims was for me always a game of relaxation and nothing for which I have to attend a training course!
So caution in "Sims 3 Generations frustration".