Not a middle kid to early teen stan, or as y'all like to term it preteen... but

I have two issues with the idea of the sims team putting together a tween life stage.

1. As @Daephene has pointed out, is it worth the time? This would no doubt be an enormous coding lift, that would take programmers away from other things for an extended period of time. And that's just to make sure that they can do activities that children and/or teens can do, as appropriate. Novel game play would be a whole additional megillah. I would much rather they focus on new game play for the existing life stages, some of which are a bit neglected.
2. It takes kids so long to age up to young adults as it is. An additional youth life stage would mean that unplayed townies might not even survive to see their kids reach high school, which would make me sad. :'( If I wanted an orphan crisis in my saves, I would download Dickensian CC and create workhouses for the poor waifs.

"SheriSim57;c-18231914" wrote:

"SnaveXs;c-18231250" wrote:
I think growing taller should be a kids milestone that happens overnight before their birthday. The kid sim remain in the kid's category until their birthday.. They would just be taller when they have a birthday party. They could have certain foods stunt the kids growth. They'll remain the same short kid height until they turn into high school age teens.

They will also have to deal with what activities they can do, children’s toys or teenager things….. like which bike would they use, adult or children’s? Regular preteens probably do a bit of both normally. And I’m afraid clothes would be so lacking at this stage in the game. We are just barely starting to get a halfway decent amount of children’s clothes. I think children and toddler clothing, and build kits would sell quite well. I wonder how well little campers sold? It was one of my favorite kits,

I'm optimistic about a new "preteen" life stage other than infant but if it doesn't happen, I'd be okay with that. I just like the idea of having a number of kids with different heights. I don't know about console player's but I'm pretty sure PC player's would come through for more clothing for preteens.