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simgirl1010's avatar
4 months ago

Child Sims: Share Your Gameplay & Discoveries

Raising a child in the Sims 4 has become quite complex and challenging.

Seasons and Get Famous brought us after school activities. Our child sims can join Scouting and Drama clubs. Reaching the highest rank in scouting awards your child the Scouting Aptitude reward trait which boosts skill gains by 25%. 

Parenthood introduced Character Values: Manners, Empathy, Responsibility, Emotional Control, and Conflict Resolution. Achieving high or low levels in these values will lead to a corresponding Reward Trait in the young adult stage.

Growing Together featured Childhood Confidence. Developing high confidence in the childhood stage leads to high self-esteem when aging up to teen.

Growing Together also introduced Milestones. While completing all Milestones isn't required  it does allow you to keep track of all the key moments in your Sim's life.

And in Adventure Awaits our child sims have the opportunity to experience Formative Moments, challenges that grant permanent reward traits.

So let's share our child sim moments, ask questions about features, and see if we can make them the best they can be before aging up to teen. 

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  • simgirl1010's avatar
    simgirl1010
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    4 months ago

    I believe volunteering increases Empathy. Child sims don't have the option to select volunteer so have your teen or adult sim select it on the computer under Household, them Volunteer Activities. You'll be able to select the child. You can also volunteer as a family.

    Calming down angry sims and cheering up sad sims also seem to help, as do comforting other sims and inquiring about their feelings.

  • I would love advice for ways to increase Empathy. I have been using this pack since Parenthood released, but the only reliable way I've found to increase this value is by playing with the doctor kit, which I don't necessarily always want to do. Sometimes having the child "ask about day" works, but not consistently. In all these years, I've never seen Empathy increase from any other interactions.

  • rosemow's avatar
    rosemow
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    4 months ago

    Asher is sweet ❤️It is great that he is enjoying spending time on the ranch. They are lovely photos of him enjoying being outdoors with the animals on a nice sunny day 🙂

  • This is Asher, Juliette's son, and Julianna's grandson. He moved in with Julianna to complete the Forever Friends event. He loves the ranch so Julianna told him he could stay as long as he wants. Not sure how Juliette feels about that.

    Working on his chores. He cleans the one horse bed, the chicken coop, and gathers the eggs.

    Taking a little break before starting his homework.

     

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