Your Sims in The Sims 4 will go through various life stages, including the toddler stage. It’s completely understandable if you want to go to the next life stage before your game does it automatically. Just likeinfants need a lot of care, toddlers do as well. Here’s how to get past it.
Ways to Age Up Toddlers in The Sims 4
Bake a Cake
If you want to age up your toddler, the first thing you will need to do is make them a cake and add candles to it. Here’s how:
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Use Modify in CAS
If you want to skip making a birthday cake and wrangling your toddler to get them to blow out candles, consider using the Modify in CAS cheat. Beware, this sometimes causes Sims tonot receive the Happy Toddler or Top-Notch Toddler traitsif they were originally eligible. Here’s how to cheat aging up:
Should you Age Up Toddlers in The Sims 4?
There isn’t really any explicit reason you shouldn’t age up your toddler in The Sims 4, but there is a reasonyou may want to hold off on aging them upa bit. Whenever you use the cake-baking method, your toddler will blow out candles and be returned to stand on the ground.
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Once this has been completed, your toddler Sim will have an animation and shortly appear as a child sim. Depending on how much you developed their skills while a toddler, you have a chance of receiving a reward trait. You can increase the chances of this by working heavily onCommunication,Potty,Movement,Thinking, andImaginationskills before aging up your Toddler. The traits you can get are:
Why should you not Age Up Toddlers in The Sims 4?
I wouldn’t recommend you do this if you’re playing with the intent to control your toddler Sim as a playable character as they age. This is because theHappy Toddler and Top-Notch Toddler traits will benefit you if you’re planning on grinding many of the childhood skillsof that Sim. If you’re just intending to have them as a member of the household that you don’t play as much, then you can skip this step before aging them up.
Want to learn more about raising children in The Sims 4? If so, check outAll Sims 4 Family Dynamics, explainedon Pro Game Guides.
