I agree that the lifestages are a bit off. I think of the baby and infant stage as 1 year, toddler up to 5 years old, child age 6-12 and teen 13-19. Young adult would be 20-30. That would mean that the child is the same (6 years) as the teen, so when they increased the teen's life stage, it made it more unrealistic for me. Think they did it so they can be played longer with high school. Same with infants compared to toddlers. I usually set up my own life spans, leaving aging off, for this reason. I am going to try playing on long with my new game in Chestnut Ridge to see how it goes, but I may plan to age up teens (and infant too) with a cake if I find it annoys me. The infants are only 1 week less than toddlers, and toddlers should have a longer life stage (4-5 years going by toddler clothing sizes). They need the extra time for the new milestones, so I understand why they did it. I would love adjustable life stages so we can be in control of how we want to play each stage. Some simmers may want a longer or shorter life stage for different age groups, depending on how they play and which stage they want to play the longest. Hopefully it is something they will do in the future. We do have some control with aging on/off but actually being able to adjust the stages would be awesome!
