[Life Stages Ideas] Preschoolers and Preteens

I would want preteens because of shorter height difference but feel it would be cool if some Sims stayed that height to elderly.

"VengefulNoodles;c-16241394" wrote:
Thought I'd share my idea with you about a tween life stage.

New interactions for teens - Prom, Throw a sleepover party, Be arrested when pulling pranks, throw a teen party, pimples, and graduation party.

New Life stage - pre-teen or tween
features - throw a temper tantrum, play in child playground, jumping on sofa, and develop crush on another tween.

I love your ideas!

"Sassycotton;c-16261825" wrote:
I love these ideals also I have a question will preschoolers be able to suck their tumb and still pee the bed? Also would the peeing the bed work for the pre teen stage too especially if they have really bad dreams, etc?

I hope! Whenever they get scared or embarrassed could work!

Note: Hey guys! I was thinking about two more life stages. This makes a total of four new life stages. I beginning to hope maybe they'll be added in a Generations-themed expansion or game pack.

-Older baby: We all know that the current babies in the Sims 4 were poorly designed and created. Like in the first Sims and Sims Medieval, they became tied to the bassinet. It's more likely they won't be untied. The babies weren't given the freedom to be carried and put down on random floors.

This is why I came up with the idea of an older baby life stage. Older babies portray real babies between 8 and 14 months. I don't see how the younger babies surpass 1 year according to other simmers (must have no knowledge of real 1 year olds). Older babies are a bit smaller than toddlers.

Anyway, older babies can crawl and toddle around the floors. They can more freely unlike (younger) babies and be carried around on the hip. They aren't tied to the bassinet or anything but they do require to sleep in a crib (styled similarly from Sims 2 and 3). Older babies can eat processed baby food from jars and drink out of bottles. They can eat in toddler high chairs.

Older babies come with their own unique items such as the activity gym/mat, walker, rattles, and more. The babies can interact toddler toys like xylophone, building blocks, and shape recognization/sorter toys. Older babies are interact-able for toddlers, preschoolers, children, and preteens.


Middle Aged Adult- middle aged Adults cover older people between 48 and 63 years of age. They have graying hair color or styles and get retirement.

"Dannydanbo;c-16263646" wrote:
With all these new stages, sims should change every three days. Doesn't sound like much fun to me.

A birthday every 3 days.
Think of the CAKE!!!! Your sims could be living on cake.
If your family has multiple kids, then there'd be a birthday or two every day! More cake for everyone!

No more rolly-polly fish heads, just lots of rolly-polly sims!

I agree more life stages

Anyway, older babies can crawl and toddle around the floors. They can more freely unlike (younger) babies and be carried around on the hip. They aren't tied to the bassinet or anything but they do require to sleep in a crib (styled similarly from Sims 2 and 3). Older babies can eat processed baby food from jars and drink out of bottles. They can eat in toddler high chairs.

Older babies come with their own unique items such as the activity gym/mat, walker, rattles, and more. The babies can interact toddler toys like xylophone, building blocks, and shape recognization/sorter toys. Older babies are interact-able for toddlers, preschoolers, children, and preteens.

I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!! There definitely needs to be an older baby stage! I love the idea of having three kids, one baby, one older baby and one toddler. Sounds hectic and fun!!

I love this idea here is my ideas





Preteen:

-Periods for girls
-Body Growth
-Phases
-Middle School
-Exclusive Romance interactions
_Puberty
-Puberty Emotion
-Acne
-Weight Gain
-Can workout
-Have School Popularity
-Body Of Teen Face Of Kids
-A Mix of some teen-elder aspirations and their own exclusive aspirations
-Taller than Kids, shorter than Teens
-Prom and Graduation options, maybe even for kids, preschoolers, or teens
_11-13 years old
-Can walk dogs, cook, clean, care for other babies/tots/preschoolers/kids
-Have their own first Careers like Babysitting, Dog Sitting, House Sitting, Dog Walking, Elementary Assistant, After School Activities, and Stands
-You can Adjust their body in CAS
-More adult-like clothes
-Have their own furniture but can also use teen beds, and kid beds



Preschoolers:


-Go to Kindergarten
-Have their own traits
-Have aspirations
-Can do their own thing by themselves
-Can eat on their own
-Can bathe on their own, somebody just needs to be nearby
-Can go to sleep on their own
-4-6 years old
-They have their furniture and toys
-Better Backyard Playground Equipment
-Taller Than Toddlers, Shorter Than Children


Newborns:

-Basically the sims when they are first born.
-1 weeks to 4 months old
-Are Basically Like Babies Normally in the sims but they can go out of their cribs and play with toys
-You can control them
-They don't have a shorter age span than infants
-Even though they can go out of their cribs, they spend most of their time in the crib


Infants:


-Learn to say simple words in simonese
-Learn to Crawl
-Can go out of their crib
-5 months to 20 months
-Learn how to take steps with Parents
-Can play with their own toys
-Can modify them in CAS
-Eat in high chair
-Have their own stuff like rattles, bouncer, gym mat, blocks, and teethers
-Can interact with Toddlers and they will respond





Older Teens:


-Ages 18-20
-Would be a good age for university pack
-Can go to college
-Can go live in dorms
-Can start preparing for college when regular teens
-Can have exclusive intern jobs
-A Youtube career




Middle Aged


-Ages 46-68
-Can start preparing for retirement
-Start having gray bits of hair
-Have different tense and sad emotions like hair getting gray, getting older, and soon leaving family
-Start to get body aches
-Start walking slower







These would be great for a pack like generations in the sims 4.


How I imagine the ages to be:


Newborn 1 week to 4 months, Infant 5 months to 20 months, toddlers 2-3 years, preschoolers 4-6 years, kids 7-9 years, preteen 10-12, teen 14-17, older teen 18-20, young adult 21-29, adult 30-45, middle age 46-68, elderly 69-

Tell me if i forgot anything.

"Dannydanbo;c-16263646" wrote:
With all these new stages, sims should change every three days. Doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Current toddlers are already pretty much preschool age -- they're a lot more independent than past toddlers especially as they gain in skills. Rather than preschoolers, I'd like to see an active day care system. The day care operator will have a couple of random toddlers dropped off for them to care for (the more Day Care skill they gain, the more toddlers they get and the more money earned) with no control over the traits (you might end up with Fussy or Wild toddlers). I just think that would be a better alternative and better use of resources.

Hello! I totally agree with you! I'd love the addition of his two life stages in the game so bad. I think it is completely necessary, the sims claims to be a life simulator, but there are still so many things that keeps it away from a really and truely enjoyable in game experience, and in my opinion, the improvement and addition of basic life stages would make a great sucess. I'm totally into family gameplay, as well as a lot of other gamers, I love to play with babies growing into adults, but once they reach the teen life state, everything lose fun and realism. You can't age a kid that looks like a 8 years old to look like a 18-20 year old. I even had cases where the kid age up to teen and looks older than his own parents! It's a bit insane, and sadly it's something very discouraging. I don't even talk about the cases that the kid has a sibling, that's streight up hell! There's a huge gap that should be fix. ¿How are the creators just okay with it? I know it's probably a hard thing to add now, but right there, that's definatly the content we would love them to work in.

Another interesting addition along with pree teens would be pre schoolers, absolutely! I admit it's not a huge age gap from toddler to kids as it is in the monstrous case of kids and teens, but it would be such a lovely and ejoyable addition to the game. Toddlers look and act completely different from preschoolers, and when you play with a family, you want to be able to watch the growing and develop of your little sim, and with toddlers there's little bit of develop you can actually see in your game. Yes, they can learn how to talk, yes they can learn how to go to potty, how to reason better, but how much of this do you actually see in your game? A feature that I love of toddlers it's how visible it's the difference in their walking styles as they learn to run and walk better. It would be amazing if you could be able to watch this kind of things also in other areas of their development, and that's where preschoolers would absolutely fit. Their abilities and skills would be completely tigh to the development they reached as toddlers. And there are millions of features that could be added, such as potty-trained, expressive (in case they filled the comunication skill as toddlers), deconcentrated- centered, in case they reached a good (or bad) mental develop as toddlers, this trait would interfere with their learning as preeschoolers, feral trait in case your toddler wasn't able to reach lvl 2-3 in any of their basic skills, emotionally ready, that trait would add certain buffs while they're in preeschool (they won't often cry for mommy or daddy, they'd have happier buffs from going to pre K) etc.

And last but not least, if we're talking about realism and enjoyable family playing, I would love to see as well some kind of improvement to babies ?