Any hope left for Pre-teens?

There is always hope! We got infants!???

I really don’t want yet another life stage. I don’t want the Sims team messing around with how long each life stage is again. They’ve already done it with HSY last year and then recently with infants. Plus I don’t think pre-teen is a distinct enough concept to warrant a whole new life stage on its own. I mean, what does it involve? Some early signs of puberty and maybe getting crushes? Not enough to warrant a separate life stage IMO. If the Sims team had made teens more distinct from young adults that would’ve been great, but as it is I really don’t want them messing around with existing life stages again. The HSY update caused major aging glitches and I really do not want that to happen again, it seriously messed up my game.

To me the children in TS4 already look and act approx age 10-12, basically preteens except that they can't cook independently.

I feel like the lifestage that's missing is the "little kid" stage, like age 6-8.

But I think I am in the minority ;)

We certainly don‘t need any more child life stages. It‘s already too much.

There still could be a possibility for Tweens. Who knows? :o

I get that people want this life stage, but personally I would rather that teens be more like teens. They did address some issues in the HSY with crushes, stupid challenges and their own aspirations, and they do have their mood swings, but left to their own devices a teen will cook, clean up, do their homework... all autonomously. They're more like a parent's dream of a teen than any real teen. I want slamming doors and arguments and hanging out with friends on the floor while blasting music and throwing clothes on the floor even if the hamper is 'right there' and refusing to make the bed or clean up after a meal. That would make them stand out.

What I do miss is a middle aged life stage. They added some of this with midlife crises (love them) but I still get adults having babies a few days before they age up to elders. A life stage with thinning hairlines, drop in fertility and wrinkles would be nice. Or maybe just a gradual drop in fertility (and desire to have kids) in adults so there is some changes in an adult sim's life.

I don't want anymore life stages. If they could just make teens a little shorter I'd be thrilled. IRL I'm the same height I was at 13-14, because I grew fast, but in the game I need that distinction. I know it won't happen, but that would be good enough for me.

Teens in sims 4 are a bit older, I think of them being 15-19 while in previous games they were more like 13-15. I'm fine with this and don't really want an update that makes them younger, much because it would mess up custom content clothes and hair.

I think we will be getting younger teens or middle school age. I still feel the gap between child and older teens is too much, we definitely need a life stage between child and the teens we now have in game.

I don't think so. They've already added one life stage to this edition, they'll probably wait till Sims 5 to add another.

I think the better route is to add more young-teen-esque activities and clothing.