What life stage do you "skip", if you skip it one at all?

"Thunderpie69;d-954126" wrote:
... I also think the grounding and scolding system from Generations is a mess,...

I totally agree.

"JoAnne65;c-16912363" wrote:
I miss an eighth option: none of the above ;) I don’t skip life stages, they all get at least a couple of days. Life span of babies is the shortest (2 days, the minimum) but I don’t skip it. I do sometimes buy a birthday cake in the morning of their birthday (in any life stage but YA, A and E) instead of waiting for them to age autonomously that day.

I also don't skip life stages but do make baby life span the shortest possible.

I must admit that I always shorten their lifespan.
But I also shorten the lifespan of babies, toddlers and elders a bit, but not as much as the children. I play on epic lifespan so the individual lifespans are too long for different reasons: I halve the lifespan of elders (grudgingly), cause otherwise my towns explode of overpopulation, because the elders tend to live muuuch longer as planned. And after my babies have met all family members and the parents and siblings had enough time to snuggle, I´ll age them up. I also age the toddlers up when they have met the family, built up a good relationship to them and learned everything.
But the children I always limit to six days, in my opinion they are boring to play with. Even with the new interactions-mods they have nothing to do and the family members can´t interact with them properly.

Baby and Elder. I age babies up the day I am allowed to in the game and I never let my adults become Elders. I switch to a different family when I find out an adult will become an elder.

I don't really skip the baby stage, but I reduce it and to be honest, don't care much about the baby, just maxes the needs with MC :#

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16915828" wrote:
After @Featherbelle and I had three RL ones of our own. I think I'll stick to 1 day and age up the babies. I've had enough with changing diapers and 2AM feedings while half asleep and trying not to fall over.

You do get the option of reliving that in small doses at some point when you become a grandparent. Or in larger doses perhaps, like my poor grandparents and one great grandparent did when suddenly a bundle of joy (me) was left for them to raise and take care of. Although by that time I was taking my meals in a high chair, from all accounts. I don't remember very much of this now, but I do remember the high chair and transitioning from a crib to my first bed, and it was all in their house.

Probably had a playpen, but don't think I ever had a baby swing. They existed but may not have been in popular usage back then. I know we didn't have car seats/restraints, kids back then were tossed into the back of a station wagon or the equivalent with cigarette ads blaring on the radio and the best of all possible outcomes was just hoped for. Now I wonder if an elder's supposed affinity for rocking chairs comes from some subconscious longing for the baby swing they once or maybe never had.

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16915828" wrote:
@igazor. I don't think I'm far behind you on that account. Trust me, I think I'm starting to get as grumpy as you are. Though of course, my irritability could be due to my arthritis.

Sorry to hear of your arthritis, but I never said I was grumpy. I said that I didn't expect to wake up on a particular birthday and suddenly by definition be grumpier. Just who do you think you are, anyway? You young people and your age-based stereotypes, I tell you...oh, wait a minute. Ah, never mind. o:) :p

Honestly! Those of us who play passionately...skip NONE. At least I don't skip any life stage. There are many things that can be missed when skipping life stages. I found that out when I finally let one of my elders die of natural causes. Her send off was touching...and her family got a boatload of simoleons! And as for babies...why would you want skip molding those first few days? They definitely help shape how your sim's life will turn out! But, this is just my humble opinion...carry on with your regular simming!

I chose baby because if there's a stage I'm gonna skip, it's that one, even though I do have the span set VERY short. (I always play on Epic, if I don't have aging already turned off :p ) It's just the most boring life stage to me :confused: although finding mods to give babies hair and better clothes has made me play with them more. :blush: Tee hee.

You can't really skip the Elder stage because... Then they're dead. :neutral: And that makes me sad depending on the Sim. Heck, even when one of my favorite Sims becomes an Elder I get sad. :cry:

@igazor you crack me up! :lol:
If there were a mod out there to take away Elder's slumped shoulders and scrawny arms I'd download it in a heartbeat and never go back! :star:
Not ALL Elders look that way.....I mean heck some of them are pretty hunky and have kept their youthful stamina.
Like Scott Bakula. :smirk: :heart:
But *ahem* ANYWAY!

:lol:

What a fun poll. Carry on my friends. :)

"Pamtastic72;c-16916147" wrote:
The constant wailing :s it's just more than I can take.

Of course babies cry sometimes, and sometimes for no reason. But if TS3 babies are constantly wailing, I would have to say that something is wrong or their needs are not being attended to.

Or is this comment meant to be about TS4? This thread seems to be attracting quite a lot of crossover. :)

"igazor;c-16915868" wrote:

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16915828" wrote:
After @Featherbelle and I had three RL ones of our own. I think I'll stick to 1 day and age up the babies. I've had enough with changing diapers and 2AM feedings while half asleep and trying not to fall over.

You do get the option of reliving that in small doses at some point when you become a grandparent. Or in larger doses perhaps, like my poor grandparents and one great grandparent did when suddenly a bundle of joy (me) was left for them to take care of. Although by that time I was taking my meals in a high chair, from all accounts. I don't remember very much of this now, but I do remember the high chair and transitioning from a crib to my first bed, and it was all in their house.

Probably had a playpen, but don't think I ever had a baby swing. They existed but may not have been in popular usage back then. I know we didn't have car seats/restraints, kids back then were tossed into the back of a station wagon or the equivalent with cigarette ads blaring on the radio and the best of all possible outcomes was just hoped for. Now I wonder if an elder's supposed affinity for rocking chairs comes from some subconscious longing for the baby swing they once or maybe never had.

"Nikkei_Simmer;c-16915828" wrote:
@igazor. I don't think I'm far behind you on that account. Trust me, I think I'm starting to get as grumpy as you are. Though of course, my irritability could be due to my arthritis.

Sorry to hear of your arthritis, but I never said I was grumpy. I said that I didn't expect to wake up on a particular birthday and suddenly by definition be grumpier. Just who do you think you are, anyway? You young people and your age-based stereotypes, I tell you...oh, wait a minute. Ah, never mind. o:) :p

Hey! Don't grump shame. Grouch Life 4 Ever, yo! You virtual kids, get off my digital lawn!

I'm almost bumping into 60 too, but I've always been grouchy, so that's no change. The main thing I don't like about Elders is that you go from about 40-50 to 80 overnight. I don't really skip the Elder stage, but they end up as mostly live-in babysitters. I play generation style, so there's usually grandparents, parents, and kids in the same house. Elders retire early, maybe take up photography or painting or some such but are left to their own devices. The way I've got the aging set up, Elders will usually kick off when the kids are in their late teens or early YA.

Babies on the other hand, can't do anything fun with them. So I set it to 2 days, and even then I'll use a cake to age them up after only 1 day. All the family bonding stuff, I do during the toddler years while they're learning the skills.

I seem to be in the majority here, but I tend not to keep babies for very long. I tend to play on "long" or "epic" lifespan but babies usually get a birthday cake a day or two after popping out.

Toddlers are way cute, in fact toddler is one of my favorite states in the game if only for how adorable they look and how cute the interactions are for training them to walk/talk/potty and playing with them. They're also when your sims' genetics start to show. The baby stage isn't the worst thing in the world but its pretty underwhelming compared to that.