If swearing goes unpunished, your Sim could get the “Bad Manners” trait. If developed well, this can lead to the “ Good Manners ” trait, which includes a new ‘Polite introduction’ action and helps your Sim develop friendly relationships faster and thank the host if invited over to a friends house. Teaching your child to say sorry, as well as please and thank you, teach good manners in general. There’s a bunch of new gross interactions like burping, farting, making a mess and swearing, which all negatively affect the manners character value. If emotional control is taught, you’ll get the “Emotional Control” trait. Just try and prevent them from biting and destroying things. If your child develops without learning positive emotional control, they could receive the “Uncontrolled Emotions” trait, which could cause more emotional meltdowns. With good emotional control, negative moodlets will decrease faster and they will automatically go to their journal to write if they are upset. To prevent tantrums and negative moods, direct your kids to listen to music to wind down, blog on the computer or in their journal, or play an instrument. Explore all the social interactions that come with Parenthood (visible by the family icon) and you should develop the skills more naturally through everyday conversation, instead of relying on your kid to act out and responding. It’s very easy to to play as the parent and direct and discipline the children, but make sure to take tons of actions as the child or teen as well. You can find volunteer options using the cell phone. There’s also a new volunteer option that’s very rewarding and positively affects traits. There are tons of journal interactions and it’s best to direct the child to write in a journal because they will go destroy a teddy bear or make a mess if you don’t. Generally speaking, the new journal is a great way to help control your child’s emotions.

Once aged up to a young adult, these values are locked in and the Sim will receive a trait based on the success (or not) of achieving the values.

Character values are available for toddlers, children and teens. It’s a little bit complicated and filling the bar is pretty difficult without taking specific actions. There are five: Manners, Emotional Control, Responsibility, Empathy and Conflict Resolution. CHARACTER VALUESĬharacter values are a behavior system introduced in Parenthood. Here’s what you need to know to be successful. However, there is a general strategy when it comes to Sims 4: Parenthood. The decisions you make for your children while they are at school or ask for advice will positively affect one aspect of their development, while harming the other. What makes things more complicated is that there’s no right or wrong answer when it comes to chance card gameplay. Parenting in The Sims 4 is a complex system of character values, traits, temporary phases and skills.

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