Could Preteens be Next!!!

"Clk1143;15570891" wrote:

"Orchid13;15570828" wrote:

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"Clk1143;15570469" wrote:

"Orchid13;15557388" wrote:
I mean free play has pre teens, so The Sims should add it eventually, but I wouldn't count on it. They should just fix teenagers lol

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"GalacticGal;15476350" wrote:
10, 11, and 12 are special years in a person's life. We aren't children, but we aren't teens either. A lot of questioning comes at this age. Also, although you may have been the tallest in your class in sixth grade, you suddenly realize your not tall at all. My first serious crush called me bean-pole. BEAN POLE. I admit I did tower over him that year. But he was really really short, too. LOL Today, I'm all of 5'3 1/2". That's it, folks. Not exactly tall. I think were they to add this life-stage, it would bring back the 'shorter' kids for an easier transition to those tall strangers in our Sims' homes. I know my sons shot up. Before I knew it I was looking up at them.

See, here in England, 10, 11 and 12 year olds are children. To us, children become teens when they hit their teen years (thirTEEN), hence the term. There is no 'pre', it's just 'child' or 'teenager'.

I'm not opposed to the idea of this life stage, I really just don't see the point of it, and how long will it last? 3 sim days? I'd rather just have better, fleshed out teens that *look* and act the part.

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Not everyone plays with aging on so for me "3 Sim days" would not be the same as it is for you as I have not aged a single Sim since release except 3 babies. So preteen would be a permanent life stage changing my family dynamics greatly. Why do we have to settle for fleshed out teens or preteens why do we have to limit ourselves when we could make everyone happy.

But you wouldn't be making me happy having to deal with *another* life stage. I see no point to it, when they could flesh out the existing life stages. Why add more rubbish, when they could focus on what we *do* have? I don't want more life stages. We have enough. I want *better* life stages not more squashed in between the Ines we do have.

Pre teens just don't exsist in the real world. People are children until they become TEEN ages (numbers with TEN in them) it's basic logic. A pre teen is a child. That's it. And we have those already.

Basically what @Clk1143 said.

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Ugh...people like you...annoy me so badly. If you don't know what a word is, look it up! We have freaking dictionaries in book and online form. I don't understand you you think preteens don't exist because THEY DO. You are right, a preteen it is a CHILD. UNDER 13. Why is it so hard to understand? A preteen is a child who has a few more years before they are teenagers. Preteens are real, they existist. They are children under 13. Do you need to be educated again?

Pre- a prefix meaning before or previous
Teen- a young person between 13-19 years old

Pre+teen= preteen- a CHILD just under the age of 13; a preadolescent or pubescent

You are really making yourself sound ignorant. Its sad that even kids aged 10-12 know what the term preteen is and you don't. :/

Barring your insults, are you ok in the head?

You've basically just told me a preteen is a child, yes? To which I agree. A child. Not preteen.

Do you kiss your mother with your foul mouth? And please, don't talk to me about education when you're very clearly lacking in it yourself.

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ETA: I'm not even sure you know what a teenager is. You would be a teenager when you hit 13. Hence the name TEEN. ThirTEEN. Lol gosh, and I annoy you? No such thing as a preteen unless you call it a child, which they would be and we have those already.

Lol what? The name has nothing to do with it, i really think you should look up the word logic. English is not the only language in the world, and I happen to speak two languages and the word teen in Spanish has nothing to do with the ending of each number. Even in English it doesn't make sense... when you hit nineTEEN you are no longer a teen so that argument is just awful sorry.

And what you consider a teen is not what other cultures consider a teen. Jews celebrate the 13th birthday , Americans the 16th birthday Latin Americans 15th birthday. So sorry to break it to you there is something in between children and teenagers. Even when kids are going through changes they are not considered teens yet, boys changing their voice, girls starting to develop and many other things are not characteristics of kids or teenagers.

Actually the name does have something to do with it. A nineteen year old is still a teenager, they are considered adult for some things in the world they are also still very much a teen developmentally. Just because some people celebrate at sixteen, or thirteen or whatever doesn't mean anything either. I personally celebrate all of my kids birthdays. You do realize that kids are constantly changing though, it's not like it's only this magically pre-teen stage that kids are changing or developing. Also many kids don't do the specific things you mentioned until puberty or even a year after it which is also not pre-teen.

It has nothing to do with that. There are many languages and the numbers were not inspired by life stages and let's pretend that's true. If medicine keeps getting better and better and we get to live way more and someone turns one hundred and thridteen years old he is a teenager? Also 19 year old is already considered an adult, even when it comes to development, there's always late bloomers some people can still be developing even in their 20s, that doesn't make them teenagers.

Of course a one hundred and thirteen year old is not a teenager, and actually there have been some who have lived that long already. Teenager ages are only in the double digits and end when you get to twenty. When I talk about development for when humans go from teen to adult, or child to teen I'm not just talking about physical attributes, but also brain development. A nineteen year old's brain is different then a twenty year old's brain.

I realize sims don't go by human ages, it's another reason why I don't feel like pre-teens are not necessary for sims. Sim ages are more of a range of several ages. I feel like the child life stage covers pre-teen in that range of ages.

Brain development? The brain is fully developed already, obviously they gain new experiences and all, but an 18,19 and 20 year old can accomplish the same things. Brain development happens for many reasons, but certainly not because their age ends in "teen" that makes no sense. Also because of 2 digits? Ok so from the age 10 to 99 we are all teens?

Yes brain development is different as you age, this is scientific fact. No from 10 to 99 we are not teenagers. I never said that and I'm not sure why you are. You are a teen if 1) you are in double digits. 2) It ends with teen. This starts at thirteen, and ends at nineteen years old. By law yes at eighteen you are considered an adult in the United States, but you are also still a teenager. It's just like a teenager can also still be a child.

Now going back on topic in sims 4 I see the children as being around the age ranges of seven to twelve years old, this covers both young child and towards the end of the stage pre-teen too. I see the sims teenagers as being around the age ranges of sixteen to nineteen years old. Again this is why I don't feel we need a pre-teen life stage. Instead I would love to see stuff given to both children, and teenagers that we have already.

If you want to talk about Brain development a "Preteens" brain develops way different than a child or a teen. Their brains rapidly growing and learning especially when they are 10-13 that's the age of hitting puberty in most also called a "Preteen" they are between growing out of the child age and into the teenage stage. At this stage they want to be independent from parents especially when friends around but they still act immature compared to a teenager.