As I wait for Eco Lifestyle, I'm playing a sim couple who I want to have six kids but living in a small home (bunk beds would be great, but I digress). I'm only on child #2 but so far, it's fun. I realized as the kids get older, even though they are different ages, it SEEMS they are the same age when in the same life stage but adding pre-teens can add more variety. What's the consensus here about that? I am convinced that we will never see pre-teens, but one can dream.

There are core issues that need to fixed. Unfortunately, adding another life stage would be something else to contribute to issues and detract from what appears to be a limited budget for other features that they could introduce into game.

Um, aren't preteens called kids?

Yes! Either pre-teens or at least improve the current teens so they aren't just thin young adults.

There is nothing special about pre-teens that they can't add in to teens or children. Another life stage would just take away from what we already have.

I would love another life stage... I this is because it is so unrealistic when a Child suddenly grows twice their size (becoming in Teen).

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SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
Yes Please!
orenjiAi15
5 years ago
Oh no. Parenting toddlers, children, and teens is hard enough. I don’t want another life stage to put up with. :#

Oh yeah, for those that aren’t against modding, I think they have one that makes your teens shorter over at modthesims.
GenSimmer
5 years ago
I really don't know what kind of special interactions and gameplay they would have other than teenagers or children.
SilentK008
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
I do not want another life stage.

I do want children to be able to do more!

I would like to have older relatives in the family-tree to have a special importance in the game. What is the point of having an ancient vampire ancestor lurking about if no one but me knows that they are related.

More rewards for building legacies that span generations.
Hermitgirl
New Spectator
5 years ago
I can't think of anything pre-teens would do that I'd be interested in playing out that I can't do on the current children in game. Then again I'm not a family player. Maybe I'm more neutral than a hard no because I won't be upset if we get them. Meh..
shacoria14
New Spectator
5 years ago
No, I think that would just be too much. I don't consider "pre-teen" or "tween" to be a real stage in life.
dianed485
Rising Scout
5 years ago
The teens we have look more like 17/18. I’d like 13/14 year olds too. There’s a huge gap right now between kids who look between, I’d say, 7 and 10 year olds and teens.
texxx78
5 years ago
Imo only YA have lots of options, all the other life stages are somehow negleted, needing a lot of work to get to a good point. That's why i don't need a new life stage.
ChadSims2
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
I'd love pre-teens I'd gladly get them over the trash we have been getting and dumpster woohoo. Pre-teens easily make my list of top 4 things I want in Sims 4 only below cars real babies and personality/traits overhaul family play is why I play the Sims and the massive gap between small children and fully grown adult sized teens cant be unnoticed and is just weird to me.
ChaliSims
5 years ago
I don't want another life stage separating me from young adult sims. Children and teens are already so boring, I just want them to grow up to young adults so they can have more boring children and teens for me to play.