My Child New Beginnings activities not working is usually the wrong input rather than a bug. The swing needs a drag instead of a tap, the work papers can stall mid-drag and pay you less, and the food that refuses to react is usually the day-three gate in disguise. Here is which is which.
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My Child New Beginnings activities not working: the swing
The swing does not follow the mouse however often you tap or drag it. It is a mouse drag that pushes the child forward as the swing moves: tap and drag as if you push them forward each time they swing. That is the whole trick.
Work and the papers
Dragging the papers at your job can stop halfway through and throw an error, which results in less money being earned that shift. It is a known rough edge rather than a softlock, and redoing the shift is the way through. How the pay works is covered here.
The food that will not react
Food can be non-interactive on days 2 and 3, and ordering a new pizza on day 3 does not fix it.
The day-3 gate is the garden. Until the grass and branches are cleared, feeding is blocked.
The character can vanish mid-scene. During a feeding scene the child can finish a thought, disappear, and only then have the food line spoken over an empty scene.
The swing and the garden
The swing sits in the backyard, and the yard has its own repairs - cutting back the tall grass, replacing the fence in Renovation mode and rebuilding the swing from the bits in the shed. Those steps are here.
Known issues you do not need to report
These are listed as known issues that do not need a bug report:
Non-basic Latin characters do not render correctly in one typeface.
Some UI elements appear cropped or not aligned correctly on specific devices or screen sizes, including 4:3 scale monitors.
Some English text has minor errors, such as missing punctuation on dynamic dialogue lines, mostly in minigame and food lines.
Localisation problems belong in the separate translation issue channel.
The full troubleshooting order
When an activity does nothing and it is not one of the cases above, it is a stuck state rather than a known quirk, and the order to work through it is fixed. That order is here.
Where to report it
For the Steam version, use the Bug Reporting & Known Issues forum and specify the day you are on and the last activity you were tasked to do. For mobile, use the My Child Games Discord, because mobile bug reports posted on Steam are closed without a response.
FAQ
Why do the swing, the papers or the food not respond?
Each has its own known behaviour: the swing needs a drag rather than a tap, the work papers can stall mid-drag and pay less, and the food that will not react is usually the day-three garden gate in disguise.
The game says nothing happens. What do I do?
Work through the fixed troubleshooting order: check the chapter trigger list, check the version for a fix, and reload the save when the state is stuck.