I’ve never had to ground, punish, or really scold anybody beyond a “Hey, don’t play in the toilet, that’s gross”. Despite a few messes, tantrums, and mood swings- I found my kids (and I’ve had many) really weren’t that misbehaved. However, I will say that some of this pack is inaccessible unless you’re a little heartless or you’re set on raising the black sheep of the family. All this really allows for a lot more character and depth to families as both kids and parents have their own dynamics and personalities. Even beyond discipline, there’s bunches of new interactions between adults and children that allows you to be their best friend or their worst enemy. You can be calm, firm, and strict in your discipline tactics- learning more ways to get the kids to chill as you master the parenting skill. New activities like writing in a diary, setting the table, and volunteering help increase a child’s character traits.Īnd the new flavors of families don’t stop there as you can now pick your parenting style. The pros and cons of big families with chaos, messy floors, and occasionally calm family dinners are a lot more real now, as well as having only one kid who’s a little anti-social but gets all the attention. Never before has having fewer children and a stay-at-home parent made as much sense in the Sims 4- and honestly, it gets borderline overwhelming if you’re trying to crank out an army of prodigies.īut this really does add more nuance to families and parenting in The Sims 4 which didn’t exist before. But here in lies part of the struggle of Parenthood- it can be a lot of work, just like real parenting. These traits do help your kids Sims in adult life though, making them more socially gifted, emotionally controlled, relationally skilled, and high performing at work. Successfully getting in range for these traits is quite a challenge though- which is helpful when trying to avoid the negative, but a little tedious when trying to get the positive. Parents can be as engaged or distant as they want, helping with things like school projects or not caring at all. But, if you let them run wild (or just stop by the local park), you can watch as their trait bars go all over the place. If you work the system, buy the perfect toys, run through all the flashcards, and discipline their every behavior- you can truly parent the perfect, overpowered child. Their toddler tantrums hurt their emotional control, doing their homework raises their responsibility, making a mess damages their manners, and solving the issues of their friends helps their conflict resolution- and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. These new character trait bars make almost every interaction meaningful. And if you royally mess it up, they can even get the negative versions of these traits. Depending on how you parent, a kid can have all, some, or none of these bonuses in their adult lives. The new traits on offer are: conflict resolution, empathy, responsibility, manners, and emotional control. Kids, starting as toddlers, now have character trait bars in their personality tab. The biggest parts of this pack are the new characteristics for kids and the parenting skill for adults. You can start parenting as young as toddlers by teaching kids to say please and thank you, forgive others, or say they’re sorry.
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