Do you play with aging on or off?

To keep my grandparent sims alive I order to meet their grand kids and see them grow and go to college
I use the potion of youth, their peers end up aging around them and dying but it’s fine Because family is more important

It's not that I want my Sims to live forever. It's because it's depressing to me to see the notification pop up saying so and so died and my Sim gets sad. I don't want any Sims to die unless I want then to which is rare. So yeah I have controlled death sometimes but it's rare and meant to fit my story line.

Edit: typo

Is it weird if the grandmother has the same age as the grandchild? :D
But I mostly play with vampires anyway... ;)

Aging is off. I age them up when I'm ready to advance the story.

I play with aging for the household only then I sometimes turn it off for everyone. When the generation shifts over, I turn it on for everyone.

On and off depending where I am in rotation.
Unfortunately I can go to a lot and find my sims have aged up anyway.

I need the control. I want the aging as a generational player and I don't mind my Sims aging or dying but it has to be on my terms. My settings is aging on for the household I am playing in but off for the rest of the world. I play on the longest lifespan but the birthdays or the end of each lifespan doesn't necessarily dictate that my Sims have to age. I even sometimes age my Sims before its their time (especially babies and toddlers). Sims that are homeless and NPCs also get to age but I do it manually for each Sim. Some don't get to age though. If they aren't good friends or otherwise connected to my housed Sims.

I used to play with aging off for 8 months and I got kinda tired,now I want premades to grow and have babies and I really want to see what their babies gonna look like :)
So it has been a month that I turn the aging on,on the first day of spring (season installed) and after that day, I again turn it off until the next spring....in this way they won't age up so fast :)

I usually play with ageing off and age my sims up when/if I want to. I get ridiculously attached to my sims and I also like to take my time with playing out their stories. My main sim is a vampire anyway though so I will always have him.

aging is off until i'm ready.