What age bracket do you think each life stage represents?

Babies 0-1
Toddlers 2-5
Child 8-10
YEAH I guess we sort of need some sort of preteen even though it hasn't been a real priority for me.
Teen 16-18 they look too old to be any younger
YA 18-45
Adult 46-70 crazy I know but I usually don't let my sims have kids later in this stage so it is plausible. My mom is 63 and she does not look like an elder at all so I figured by 70 she would start to look like an elder LOL maybe??
Elders 75+ this is tough too because my grandma was 80 when she died from cancer but she looked great and moved great. If she didn't get cancer she would have been still running around. My great-grandfather was 96 with a girlfriend when he passed.


Sooooo yeah Society norms doesn't really ring true to me so this is how it works in my game LOL

Toddler 4-5
Child 8-10
Teenager 16-18
Young Adult 19-30
Adult 30-50

My interpretation is fairly standard, given the responses included thus far.

Baby: Birth to 2
Toddler: 2-4
Child: 5-12
Teen: 13-18
Young Adult: 18-39
Adult: 40-60
Senior: 60+

"GalacticGal;c-17444338" wrote:
Babies = newborn to 1 year
Toddlers = 2-4
Child = 5 to 12
Teen = 13-19 (but this is where it goes fuzzy to me. In my country, USA, 18-year-olds are considered adults as in they can sign contracts
and get married without parental consent.)
YA = 20 to 35 (in my game a YA is actually 18)
A = 36 to 64 (also known as middle age)
Elder = 65+

I base elder on 65 because again, in the USA a person who reaches 65 is then eligible for Social Security (retirement) and Medicare. I hit the big 65 in a couple of days. But trust me, I don't feel 'old', not for a minute. I just wish the game wouldn't automatically make an Elder stooped over and with a full head of gray hair. Some of us are going (as in not even there, yet) white. ;)

@Babykittyjade I do hope when you reach the age of 50, you won't feel or even look like an elder. It all depends on your genes. I'm turning 65 in just a couple of days and I don't walk stooped over and my hair is still primarily red as in my avatar. Yes, I have some white streaks, but they're mostly underneath so they aren't really seen all that much. ;) But, I've got great genes, too. My late mother didn't look 80 before Alzheimer's started to have its way with her. Then she aged rapidly and died not long afterward. :'( But, she walked as straight as she always did. None of this stooped over nonsense.

ETA: A word of caution, don't be telling a 5-year-old they're a toddler, either. :open_mouth: They have usually mastered the 'art' of walking by then and they will likely insist they are a big kid, now. I wouldn't want you to suffer the wrath of such a misstep on your part. (Duck and take cover!) ;)

LOL 50 is the new 30

Baby: 0-1
Toddler: 2-5
Child: 6-12
Teen: 16-18
YA: 18-30
Adult: 31-65
Elder: 65+

It's super vague, but this is how I generally think of it (and what I base the modded custom lifestage lengths that I usually use on lol)

baby: 0-9 months
toddler: 9 months to 3 years (but in my head I push it five years so there's not so much of a gap)
child: 8 to 12 years (but in my head I stretch it down to 6 years and up to 13 years so there's not so much of a gap)
teen: 14 to 18
young adult: 19-29
adult: 30-60
elder: 61+

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17444371" wrote:
@GalacticGal

Since I do have children, I can say age 5 is still a toddler. Toddler clothing goes up to size 5 and is still found in the baby/toddler section. While some age 5 children wear larger sizes, they are considered in the larger than average. Toddlers also are mastering more than just walking.They are mastering complex coordination at that age, which is running, cartwheels, somersaults, etc. That is why I see it that way. Btw, one of my kids were in the toddler section of clothing until she was almost 10 years old.

The sizing on clothing has almost nothing to do with the age of the child. I have three grown children of my own and am the proud grandmother of twelve grandchildren. The standard for toddler is 2-4 years of age. And all kids come in various sizes. Our five-year-old is very petite and has been since birth. She has five sisters and three brothers, ranging from 10 1/2 down to almost 9 months old. Her next younger sister is three, the one after that is just turned two. Both these younger girls are almost as big as the five year old. They are larger children, to be sure. My three children were on the lean side and our only daughter (the mother of the ones I was discussing) was petite, herself. She always wore a size smaller than her age. In fact, she wore a size 6 mos. undershirt until she was a year old! So, in this case the item said 6 mos. as in age, it was really only a hint based off of the average size of a child of that age.

Toddlers are called toddlers because most of us are very unsteady on our feet, initially. Since there's a wide range of normal, not all children begin to walk at any set age.(Twelve months being the average.) My daughter was expected to walk at nine months of age, since she sat up (without support) on her own by four months old and was crawling by six months of age. But, she ended up with ear problems, which is why the pediatrician thought she didn't walk as soon as predicted. But, she also assured me that was a 'good' thing as most babies don't have it up here (she said as she tapped her temple) to be walking around and are quite dangerous.

And wow still wearing toddler clothing until she was almost ten must have been very hard on your daughter.

Infants: 0-1
Toddler: 2-5
Child: 6-13
Teen: 14-19 (pimples, light facial hair)
YA: 20-35
Adult: 36-60 (change their hair color around 50+ to more gray-ish, a little bit more wrinkles)
Elder: 60+ (Change to gray hair around 70)

Baby: 0-6 months
Toddler: 1-4
Child: 9-12
Teen: 16-18
Young Adult: 18-40
Adult: 40-65
Elder: 65+
There's a lot of gaps, but I'm just going off of how old I think they look like/act like.

Baby 0-6 months
Toddler 1-2.5
Child 8-10
Teen 17-19
Young Adult 20-35
Adult 35-55
Elder 70+

No life stages that seem to rep ages 6m-1y, 2.5-8, 10-17 or 55-70 in my mind.