Teen Ideas

There's Family and Youth Activities by adeepindigo: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48566149
It's rabbit holes but it gives your sims other places to go, and they get a moodlet.

There's ItsKatato's Preteen mod and its addon First crush:
Preteen: https://www.itskatatomods.com/blog/categories/preteen-mod
First Crush: https://www.itskatatomods.com/post/preteen-first-crush-pack
I don't have either of these so I don't know how well they work.

"wahini2024;d-999718" wrote:
I'm okay with mods and any suggestion for fun, dramatic, silly etc teen story lines and upgrades. I hate that this life state is severely neglected in my game because it's such a critical part of anyone's life.

I want teens to runaway. Have group homes. Be able to drop out. Have more options for after school activities like... sports and cheer and band etc. Prom would awesome. Interesting club ideas that aren't homework because teen homework takes forever.

Any and all suggestions welcome. Mods, storyline ideas, cas cc, gallery builds for events or teen living. Literally anything, I want to have a stronger and more interactive teen life state.

Have you seen my thread on setting up a Prep-school for teens.
It follows my progression of setting it all up and playing it. The first post is basically a table of contents for all my updates.
It might seem confusing at first.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/968807/college-prep-school-dorm-the-follow-up#latest

I love it because I can have teens around the neighborhood under one roof and it's easier to have them all interact and become friends, or enemies.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/09_12_20_2_33_53_AM.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

I do have two adults in it.
One is the school counselor and the other is the school administrator.
They went to Uni for their degrees and they actually work in their professions and have offices in the the building.
The game lends itself to this game play if you have Parenthood because the teens are constantly dropping in on the school counselor asking for advice.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/09_12_20_2_04_37_PM.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

The school is also a rotation point for sims taking turns at terms at Uni.
I sent them in groups of three and alternate between the Uni schools. This great because the can go to Uni together and also take school vacations together.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/f116/cireking213/01-03-21_12-34-25_AM.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

I agree with you that teens need much more fleshed out! As for prom, I've managed to have one by setting up a temporary club with my teens. I prepared the lot with decorations, music, a place for them to take photos, and the fountain from luxurious parties so they could have punch and eat? It's been awhile but I think it went pretty well!

I usually set up clubs for my teen, one with their closest friends to hang out and a party group for the weekends. You can also play with the personality of your sim. Right now I'm trying a rebellious teen, but as no teens are rebellious (even when they have the trait) this is proving quite a challenge. She did skip school one day, I'm never doing homework and trying to keep her grades low and have her complain a lot as well as fight with her little sister too. It's fun, but also hard, because this is just not something teens do, so you have to direct everything.

"JAL;c-18111539" wrote:
Right now I'm trying a rebellious teen, but as no teens are rebellious (even when they have the trait) this is proving quite a challenge. She did skip school one day, I'm never doing homework and trying to keep her grades low and have her complain a lot as well as fight with her little sister too. It's fun, but also hard, because this is just not something teens do, so you have to direct everything.

It's hard for me to believe my teen is a teen when they can do 99% of what a young adult can do. They don't sneak out, break curfew, have prom, sports, band, etc. I understand the academic part but teens are *usually* more about a social life and when the homework takes 2 sim hours and the need decay is a little faster than young adult it doesn't really leave much social time. They just lack so much but I'm trying to fix that... somehow. So far I've built a boarding school so it'll be an all teen household and starting clubs.

I always have a teen bowling club in my games. It helps my teens make friends, find romance sometimes, and gives them a hobby, plus there is a 300 simolean scholarship for when they go to uni.

I haven't started any social clubs for my teens, but I have created a couple that live on their own, or have moved them out from their families.
They still have to go to school, but I find them more fun when they are on their own.
I have Get Together, so I may start making clubs for my kids and teens so they have more to do.

@Umbreon12 I moved half of my teens into 2 communal living areas where one is for boys and the other for girls. I started clubs for them and have a prom location (or any other event like home coming or just a general hang out, works best as a night club set to teen and university hang out) and some teens still live at home.

I've had more fun with them than young adults honestly. The only thing I'm lacking is a good mod to shorten the length of time they're at school. But I've really enjoyed having either lot (girl or guy home) filled with teens and the "drama" of teen life. They're always hanging out and the best winter fest holiday was with them. It was super cute to have so many over at once place.

@wahini2024

Here ya go:
https://modthesims.info/d/657799/home-at-2-pm-for-teens-all-grades.html

"wahini2024;c-18111586" wrote:
It's hard for me to believe my teen is a teen when they can do 99% of what a young adult can do. They don't sneak out, break curfew, have prom, sports, band, etc. I understand the academic part but teens are *usually* more about a social life and when the homework takes 2 sim hours and the need decay is a little faster than young adult it doesn't really leave much social time. They just lack so much but I'm trying to fix that... somehow. So far I've built a boarding school so it'll be an all teen household and starting clubs.

This is the one feature I really, really miss! Even if they break curfew and are out late, they can't really sneak out when everyone in the family is still up and about when they get home. If I could only add one feature to sims 4, the ability to send the rest of the family to bed while away would be it.