Childhood Consequences
4 new traits for when your Sims fail as parents.
🔽 Download: CurseForge / SFS
Requires: Lot 51 Core Library
Supported Languages: All 🌍
Patch Resilience: Highℹ️
This mod aims to deepen the impact of a Sim's childhood by linking child skill development to lasting adult traits. If your Sim struggles to develop the Mental, Motor, Social, and Creativity skills far enough, they will acquire new negative traits that will slow their skill growth as adults.
4 New Traits
Boneheaded
Boneheaded Sims build mental skills slower.
Tongue-Tied
Tongue-Tied Sims build social skills slower.
Unimaginative
Unimaginative Sims build creative skills slower.
Uncoordinated
Uncoordinated Sims build physical skills slower.
How It Works
For Played Sims: When a played Sim ages from Child to Teen, if they haven't reached level 4 in any of the childhood skills, they’ll acquire that skill's negative trait.
Notifications: Once your Sim reaches level 4 in a childhood skill, you'll receive a notification confirming that the risk of developing the corresponding negative trait has been eliminated.
For Non-Played Sims: When a non-played Sim ages from Child to Teen, there's a small chance they’ll receive a negative trait, influenced by their existing traits.
Balanced Slowness: These negative traits serve as the counterparts to the Mentally Gifted, Socially Gifted, Creatively Gifted, and Physically Gifted reward traits. Sims with the positive traits learn skills 25% faster (at a 1.25× rate). Sims with these negative traits will progress at a slower rate of 0.75×.
Compatibility
This mod does not directly overwrite any files so it won't conflict with other mods.
This mod is base game compatible.
Polish translations by AuroraSky
This mod was made possible by Sims 4 Studio and Tuning Builder.
Comments (8)
Hi, thank you for your mods! I was wondering if the Uncoordinated one could work the same as "Clumsy"? It'd add so much depth!!
Hello, I understand this may be an overstep, but I have a request. I am disabled, as well as close to several disabled children, and I find the names of these traits rather uncomfortable. Would it be possible to rename the traits to less judgmental names, like Mentally Challenged, Imaginatively Challenged, etc.? Of course I understand that you have no obligation to me and I appreciate this mod regardless. Thank you for your time.
No worries. I did consider using “Challenged,” but I ultimately chose the names I did because I felt that “Mentally Challenged” might come across as being in poor taste or carry heavier connotations than what I was aiming for. That said, I’m not an expert on the subject.
Loving the idea! But do you know how it will interact with the "Townies Gain Skills" mod by JaneSimsten, please? Specifically interested in a situation when I create a new household myself and load with it once or twice to playtest it a little and set up careers for it and such, but push it to unplayed later. I am setting up a save for myself now, so I create lots of NPCs, but also sometimes take them back to played, then make them unplayed again... Upd. Tbh, I'm already using these mods together anyway >__< There are no direct conflicts for now, from what I see. Just got curious how the 2 mods would interact in a save long-term.
Any Child Sims that are Unplayed at their time of age up will have a small chance to be rewarded a consequence trait. Unplayed Sims' traits are taken into account, rather than their skill levels.
wow
I Love this. (Capital L.) I have my degree in Child Development and this serves to validate both my studies and what I worked so hard for with my classrooms of kids, i.e., with attention and individual care, our kids don't become 'unimaginative' 'boneheads'! Thank you. This will make for really rich gameplay. I can't wait!
Haha amazing. I’m glad this mod resonates with you! Hope you enjoy it 😊