"paradiseplanet;c-16305588" wrote:
Before Parenthood, I found Teens particularly tedious to stay around being a Teen once they hit the highest grades in school, and since I play on Long I just sometimes bother with getting them an early birthday so they can move on up in the world. Now that I have Parenthood, I can't just skip the Teens so quickly since I now have character values to develop, but that doesn't mean that I don't still find Teens boring.
I'm not much of a family-style player myself but thought I'd give it a try since I haven't done much with my parenthood pack, aside from building stuff. I discovered the child phase is probably the easiest for bringing up the character values. I found them much harder to raise with teens. And those blasted "ask for advice"are the worst. No matter how you choose to answer, one of the values will be affected negatively. After a certain point I had to turn off free will as the sim kids and teens are so compelled to ask for advice all the time that they're actually doing more harm than good.