Would you like pre-teens?

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17345527" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-17345474" wrote:

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17345471" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-17345445" wrote:
Yes, one of my most wanted thing... along with preschoolers haha

What in the world is a preschooler?

Officially? 3-5 year olds, depending on school district. For how they'd apply to the sims? I personally don't see much difference between that and a toddler sim who has all skills (including potty) at 3 or better...

I knew what a real-world preschooler is, but I've never heard a 3-4 year old described as a preschooler, just as a child or toddler. That's so bizarre.

It's due to the mania for pushing formal education down onto early childhood despite the practice not producing any lasting gains and possibly doing harm when children under 6 or 7 need to be spending most of their time in free play, discovery, and using their imaginations, not sitting at a desk and with all sorts of codes, interventions, and specialists, because they struggle to accomplish too young, what could have been learned without all those issues, simply by waiting til a more appropriate age. And parents lap it up. *packs away soapbox*

Further partitioning via additional life stages seems both redundant and silly to me. Eventually we end up with something like....

Newborn
Infant
Baby
Crawler
Toddler
Walker
Runner
Preschooler
Schooler
Prechild
Child
Postchild
Preteen
Teen
Postteen
Young Adult
No-longer Young Adult
Preadult
Adult
Postadult
Presenior
Senior
Postsenior
Elder
Sage
Methuselah
Lich
Demilich
Eldritch God

I would like shorter teens if they could still have the same clothes options.

No. Not this late in the game, anyway. The amount of CAS items they will have is pathetic, modders adn CAS makers will have to play mass amount of catch up to get up to speed with the amount of stuff they have... why not jsut allow kids and teens to do more? and add things like auto acne to teens, and make them less easy to look like adults? add more cringy teen fashion, and more stupid choice hairstyles, makeup and things for them to do? like a Pokemon go type activity, arcade machines...

"elanorbreton;c-17345760" wrote:
How sad it is that people vote no because of a lack of resources/poor expectations.

But maybe if we all voted yes we would get pre-teens in the sims 5.

That is not why I voted no. I voted no because preteens are useless and everything they do can be applied to the teen or child stages.

First crush? Can happen as a child. Puberty? I don't want puberty in my game at all, but if they add it, have it be teens. Angsty, hormonal ball of angst? Again, teenage years.

"OEII1001;c-17345892" wrote:
Further partitioning via additional life stages seems both redundant and silly to me. Eventually we end up with something like....

Newborn
Infant
Baby
Crawler
Toddler
Walker
Runner
Preschooler
Schooler
Prechild
Child
Postchild
Preteen
Teen
Postteen
Young Adult
No-longer Young Adult
Preadult
Adult
Postadult
Presenior
Senior
Postsenior
Elder
Sage
Methuselah
Lich
Demilich
Eldritch God

I died ????????????

For those who wants auto acne that's a big no for me. They have optional acne in skin details which I think is perfect.
But ALL teens do not have acne. That's an individual hormone problem that even some adults have. I didn't have acne and neither did my sister. My brother is much much older than us and even as an adult he has acne problems.
I would hate it if they forced ance. I never use that option.

Teens and children are undeveloped enough as it is. I’ve no desire for another empty life stage with little meaning.

We have enough stages imo. We had toddler sps, kid sps, why not teen stuff pack. I make my teens different by hairstyles and clothing, things I would never use on ya or adults. I wish we could have stuff packs for teens and elders, it's only fair. <3

"bshag4lv;c-17346009" wrote:
We have enough stages imo. We had toddler sps, kid sps, why not teen stuff pack. I make my teens different by hairstyles and clothing, things I would never use on ya or adults. I wish we could have stuff packs for teens and elders, it's only fair. <3

A teen stuff pack is one that I am desperate for. It's one of the only stuff packs that I feel like I NEED.