Birthday party - compliment the birthday sim

I was aging up a kiddo. Had this goal to compliment. No options appeared whatsoever to compliment anything, from three different adult sims. Drank some Happiness potions, twice, by each adult and the kid. Only one adult once turned happy, the others remained the mood they were in. The one who turned happy changed emotions too quickly again to see if any option to compliment anything came up under the Friendly menu.