Ideas to improve gameplay for Children

Yes, if they just did everything kids could do in sims2 and sims3, that would be excellent.

Just a few things off the top of my head I remember were being able to play tag and hopscotch, play clap games together, ask to be swung around, go trick or treating. There were also slides and merry go rounds in addition to swings, and spring rides, tree houses, and a lot of afterscool club options.

To be honest, I haven't ever been a fan of playing any age but adults and sometimes teens.
But I have very fond memories of TS3 children gameplay because of the imaginary friends... it took me by surprise at first (well it scared me lmao) but then I absolutely loved it, made it more fun. So yeah... maybe add that back again? That's all I got.

I do miss so much having fun kids in the Sims 4. It's for me a BIG lack for a life simulation. I want to see kids running after each other, playing together, laughing outloud, jumping on beds...

I'm so sad that kids aren't playing together in our game actually. It's really not realistic. I loved imaginary friends and seeing kids playing Cops and Robbers. That would be so fun if we could see the kids running in the house and be noisy. Parents could ask them to be calm, to play in their room or to stop screaming.

Kids could fall and cry after playing too much, they could ask more attention to their parents, etc.

I have added a few mods that made kids feel better to me at least. The don't do homework or take away laundry unless you tell them to. They feel less like mini-adults when they don't do all the cleaning without parental input.

We could definitely use more stuff for kids to do, and more aspirations as well.

New animations are the key - real life kids move, so if whatever gets added for kids has tight or reused animations, it won't add to them feeling alive. Kids should be able to play with each other.

I agree, but I do think there should be some kind of decider, maybe it would be chosen like a trait or aspiration, but not in the same group. it would only be in tots, kids, and teens like maturity scale or something, maybe it would depend on the trait they have or players could just pick the level.

@LIL_Lilly your idea sounds kind of like one of the personality dimensions we had in Sims 1 and Sims 2. It reminds me of Serious/Playful the most. Is that what you had in mind?

Sadly @Eleri, I never played Sims 1 2, or 3, It would work as a scale with 3 levels (maybe more) of maturity, I saw a lot of players saying "Kids need to be like kids, break rules" which is true but not all kids are like that, so this could be a way to have the best of both worlds. :smiley:

Yes! Kids desperately need more to do--even some functions in game already could be updated to have kids use them. They're one of my favorite life stages!