I love playing as young adults! Children/teens not so much. Gotta keep the game going though!

I couldn’t agree more! I play with the long lifespan (actually a little longer bc I have MCCC) and used to wait until my teen aged up to YA on their own but now I age them up once they have an A in school. I have my YA lifespan set to 100 days cause I love playing them so much.

I create my own life span settings using Sims4Studio. I have my YA set to 56 days and adult set to 56 days as well. So 112 days in all for YA-Adult :) @jacknchloe

I like the teens. Though between holidays, vacations, excuse notes, and just plain skipping school, they're home more often than not. ^_^ But I like the idea that they start working towards their life goals before they're actually ready to move out on their own.

I didn't used to like playing as kids so much, but with Get Famous, I find I'm enjoying them more. I got tired of their aspirations, though. Now if they max out a skill, I just cheat the associated aspiration. It makes more sense logically, anyway. If you can compose an original song on the violin as a child, you're creatively gifted. Even if you didn't get around to playing with three toys or drawing every picture type on the art table. :p

The toddlers are adorable. I enjoy doing playdates and things like that, but once they start actually demanding things, I'm like, "Guess what! It's your birthday! Now you can go to fridge and make yourself a sandwich!"

My favorite ages to play are also YA. Sometimes grade school children, but only in moderate amounts. I think teens are horrible in this game both in the way they usually look (pencil shaped bodies) and animate - I cannot relate to that phone obsession either. Toddlers can look very cute, but I don't care much for the gameplay attached to them. Infants are just boring furniture to me. I really dislike the way Adult faces get baggy around the nose and mouth. Otherwise, that would probably be my preferred age group to play. Elders have a ridiculous walkstyle if you ask me, and I don't appreciate the complaining and back creaking animations.

So yeah, little praise and much whining. But hey, then I'm not so different from anybody else. /sarcasm

Honestly I like the adults show age. Humans age. And Im assuming the adults are 35-40 years old. A lot of people in real life certainly have a worn look to them by that age. I dont like for my sims to look the same age as their teenage kids. So I welcome the age details @Nindigo :)

I like them all, though my YA's definitely seem to get more love. Mostly because that's the stage where they get married, can have a "real" career and start pumping out babies. I have doubled all the ages but baby to get more time with my sims, and I'm always maxing out toddler skills...not always child skills, mostly because I don't want samey same kids. But I do try to max the skill that leads to adult skills that they're going to need so that they get a headstart on them. And I quite enjoy getting Parenthood traits, but I don't necessarily go out of my way to max them all, again, samey same. Teens generally get a headstart on their aspiration, or complete the first one (if they can) and move onto another one. I'm a bit of a trait hoarder, so my sims start collecting reward traits as early as possible.

Also, as far as school goes - those with an A I believe start higher in the career. But I could be mixing that up with something else, I haven't had enough coffee yet.

I play with them all. I think children and teens helped to definitely got more rounded with the parenthood pack along with more things in the kids room stuff pack for children as well. The void critter game that came with KR stuff is good. Since my sims can go searching in trash cans for booster packs and cards can even upgrade the cards to get their void critter stronger. With Seasons and GF they're getting more after school activities (can't wait to see more come). I always work on my children's skills to try and max them out because it does benefit them when they get older.

Younger sims like toddlers and children are always going to be limited in terms of what adults can do always has been in every game. (Way worse in the first sims game as kids didn't have much of anything to do.)

I make use of the get together club system. Having study/homework groups, playing video games at their local arcade as well as skating. And kids can even make their own videos with the GF video station which is pretty cool to me that they're able to use things like that.

I always welcome more things for teens and children alike any day of the week. Especially in terms of hobbies.

That's not surprising considering the game is clearly focused towards YAs. Younger life stages have barely anything to do in comparison.

Rather than making your sims have kids, you could just have a friend move in with them, so that you have someone to play when your sim dies. I've done that before, as I don't always feel like having to play the younger life stages and having to deal with school and homework and phases. In one of my saves, my sim went on vacation to Selvadorada. While there, she met two locals whom she quickly befriended. When she returned home, they both moved in with her and are helping her run her vet clinic.

I like all stages equally and for me, there are too many things for kids and teens to do for their age lengths. I've just recently gotten into families more as I usually played singles or couples without kids. Although that is a fun gameplay, it gets old and I found myself looking into raising full families and try to at least get to the 3rd generation for crying out loud. :D

To me, the quality of the gameplay and animations became remarkably better with the release of toddlers. I don't remember having this much fun with Sims 2 or 3 tots.

@LadyKyn, I love the kids club idea...going to steal it. <3