Do you ever cheat a sim's skills for story/character reasons?

"Emo-usagi2187;c-16693815" wrote:
Nope i use the house traits for the skills much easier i only use cheat their needs or if need reset them.

That's the way I used to look at it, but then I started thinking how weird it was that adults, and especially elders, start with zero skills in any area. I get it from a "game" perspective, but I don't play TS4 to challenge myself.