Young Teens as New Lifestage

My teens always look like full grown adults.

"gbaisden;c-18317084" wrote:
My teens always look like full grown adults.

Mine too and I almost think the preteens mod is how teens should have looked to begin with and how young teens should look if they are ever officially added.

I don't put makeup on them maybe some lipgloss and try to dress them as teens would probably dress. They shouldn't be the same height as parents.

I would like preteens as a new life stage because I personally don't see the child in the Sims as Preteens and the height of teens never bothered me I wanted Preteens since the Sims 2 and teens were a lot shorter then I would love a middle school and more school activities added to the game.

No. No. No. Let the boring child life stages end and give us something interesting to do.

Please no. It's enough of a grind now to get Sims to adulthood. We don't need anymore life stages.

The only issue I have with yet another child/teen life stage is that a lot of it is taken up by school and homework and there is nothing you can do about it. A large part of their life is taken up by a rabbit hole activity and then they come home and have to do the homework. If they add another life stage, maybe they could add some interesting elements like summer and winter vacations, afterschool activities like ballet, baseball, beginner's robotics, more summer and winter specific activities for everyone, more family interactions.

Pre-teens and mid adults please!!!!!!

As a mother of a young teenager, a 14-year-old, who is already towering over both me and his father at more than 180 cm, I do not have a problem with how tall the teens are in sims 4. There is no form of normal where teens are shorter than adults, as a teacher I just as often find the opposite to be true. That said, teens still possess some lankiness that quite often distinguish them from adults and the game could have done this better.

Still, I find what most irk me about teens in game is how adult they behave. They wake up at 6am every day, make their bed, help set the table without being told, clean their plates after dinner and never misses the hamper in the evenings. That is just not teenage behaviour. Set a hamper next to your teenagers bed and they'll still magically miss it every. single. time! Making he bed? Without being told? Yeah right! Same with cleaning up dishes or picking things up! Without being told a teen is quite often a slob. I wish this was reflected more in their behaviour.

Teens' needs are also different. Their hygiene drops faster (especially for boys), they are generally harder to wake up in the morning (but prefer being awake later at night), their social need is quite often larger, and they're hungrier as they develop, but also put on less weight and have a lot easier time to get fit. Basically every single need save for bladder and energy should drop faster for a teens than adults. Energy should take longer to recharge, but drop slower. And yes, I realise this does not apply to all teens (my own quite often gets up early, for instance, as did I when I was that age,) but as a general rule of thumb it still applies.

I also wish there were more things to argue about with your teens. Now you have rules, curfew and music (If you have parenthood), but how about what friends they have? Or how they dress? Or opposing political views? Or school and how serious they take it? Romantic relationships? How much time they spend on their phones, or gaming on the computer?

"JAL;c-18319120" wrote:
As a mother of a young teenager, a 14-year-old, who is already towering over both me and his father at more than 180 cm, I do not have a problem with how tall the teens are in sims 4. There is no form of normal where teens are shorter than adults, as a teacher I just as often find the opposite to be true. That said, teens still possess some lankiness that quite often distinguish them from adults and the game could have done this better.

Still, I find what most irk me about teens in game is how adult they behave. They wake up at 6am every day, make their bed, help set the table without being told, clean their plates after dinner and never misses the hamper in the evenings. That is just not teenage behaviour. Set a hamper next to your teenagers bed and they'll still magically miss it every. single. time! Making he bed? Without being told? Yeah right! Same with cleaning up dishes or picking things up! Without being told a teen is quite often a slob. I wish this was reflected more in their behaviour.

Teens' needs are also different. Their hygiene drops faster (especially for boys), they are generally harder to wake up in the morning (but prefer being awake later at night), their social need is quite often larger, and they're hungrier as they develop, but also put on less weight and have a lot easier time to get fit. Basically every single need save for bladder and energy should drop faster for a teens than adults. Energy should take longer to recharge, but drop slower. And yes, I realise this does not apply to all teens (my own quite often gets up early, for instance, as did I when I was that age,) but as a general rule of thumb it still applies.

I also wish there were more things to argue about with your teens. Now you have rules, curfew and music (If you have parenthood), but how about what friends they have? Or how they dress? Or opposing political views? Or school and how serious they take it? Romantic relationships? How much time they spend on their phones, or gaming on the computer?

Argue about opposing political views I'm sorry but disagree it heated irl I come to the sim to escape especially next year with the debate and election coming up no thank you. I would like relationship status because in my cas family it's a typical good girl falls for bad boy and dads a police officer and you know the rest. I would like for teens to be punished for getting detention more then once, like a phone call home or even suspended where they can't come to school for a day or two. Then they get grounded for however long.