Loud phase?

I know there's a bug with that one - the parents can't discipline the kid or teen for using forbidden words. They can't discipline him at all for it. Yours was at least polite - mine always give a snotty answer that they need to be heard and there's nothing their parents can do about it. I hate this phase with a passion.

I hadn't thought of using the influence menu (I think you need a certain level of parenting skill to get 'influence' as an option). My parents are always maxed out in parenting skill before their toddlers become kids, so if an 'influence to be quiet' option is supposed to be in the menu, they should have it. I'll have to look the next time I have a kid go through this phase.

I'd like to know this too. It's frustrating because in my game, once the radio or speakers go into loud mode, it's impossible to turn them down to normal. I've had to resort to deleting them and replacing them with new ones.

I get the same answer ("I need to be heard!") and that's where it says to try influencing the child to be quiet. Basically, the "listen to loud music" is unique to the phase -- I just deal with it (good thing it doesn't wake the baby upstairs!) and as soon as he leaves for school I turn off the stereo. Sometimes I'll switch the station to something like classical or baroque -- at least those aren't as ear-grating. My mom Sim is level 8 Parenting now and I haven't seen anything.

I just read that influencing them to do more quiet activities may help them out of it, also if you direct the child to curse, the parent can discipline them and they should take them out of it too.

"stilljustme2;c-16802478" wrote:
I get the same answer ("I need to be heard!") and that's where it says to try influencing the child to be quiet. Basically, the "listen to loud music" is unique to the phase -- I just deal with it (good thing it doesn't wake the baby upstairs!) and as soon as he leaves for school I turn off the stereo. Sometimes I'll switch the station to something like classical or baroque -- at least those aren't as ear-grating. My mom Sim is level 8 Parenting now and I haven't seen anything.

Since I have autonomy off, I don't have a problem with loud music. It's the cursing that I can't stand. I know that's bizarre, since it's in Simlish (or silent) and the only manifestation is the animated 'curse' characters on the screen. However, it annoys me so much in real life that even the representation of my Sims doing it makes me want to ground them for the rest of their child/teenhood.

I haven't run into it lately - for a bit, my kids and teens always went through the loud phase at least once.

once you use the cheat to remove it, take the kid on a couple of loading screens to get rid of the idle behaviour.

Normally, I will get my teen Sims to jog to clear mind... it works for me...

Very annoying phase, it seems to be the most common as well. How do you stop it and how is it caused