How to mentor your child sims 4

How to Mentor in Sims 4

Sims 4 enables players to live their lives to the fullest, albeit with surprises, and sudden deaths. However, if you’re keen on passing down your skills to the next generation or a Sim you deem worthy, you need to be an expert mentor. Being a good mentor doesn’t come naturally in Sims 4. So, if you’re looking to take a Sim under your wing and teach them your skills, we’ve got you covered in this guide.

Mentoring in Sims 4

Once bought from the rewards store, mentoring is used to teach skills to fellow Sims. While mentoring is a crucial part of completing the Successful Lineage aspiration, it can be beneficial in other ways too. To mentor anyone, players need to get them to start working on a skill. During the process, click on them to get a bunch of options. Choose the mentor option to start teaching them your skill.

Moreover, players can mentor a child, teen, or adult. The process of mentoring remains the same throughout all age groups. However, there are some conditions before you can start mentoring in Sims 4.

1. Purchase the mentor trait for 1000 points from the reward store.
2. You must have a Level 10 skill.
3. It must be a skill that one can mentor.
4. Go near a Sim.
5. Get close to equipment related to your skill.

Increase Your Skills to Become a Better Mentor in Sims 4

Skills play a vital role in mentoring in Sims 4 and allow Sims to be efficient in their daily activities. You can be a good teacher only once you have mastered the discipline yourself. Skill sets are different for children and adult Sims. Skill building is time-consuming, and it is tricky for players to learn every skill. Therefore, if needed, players can use cheats to upgrade Sims’ skills on an immediate basis.

Unlike previous Sims’ titles, skill levels now start with Level one. To upgrade skill levels, players need to perform tasks associated with them. For instance, playing the guitar increases its skill, cooking skill increases when you prepare a meal, and handiness skill increases when you repair something.  

Which Skills Can We Mentor in Sims 4

Although there are plenty of skills in Sims 4, Sims can mentor only a few of them. Here are all the skills in which we can mentor other Sims:

• Guitar
• Chess
• Piano
• Violin
• Writing
• Fitness 
• Gardening
• Handiness 
• Painting 

Aspirations in Sims 4

Just like the skills above, aspirations are closely linked to mentoring as well. Aspiration is a set of goals that Sims want to pursue. Players earn aspiration points when they complete a goal. Additionally, these points are used to acquire new traits and purchase some potions. There are fourteen types of aspirations for an adult Sim and several others for children as well. Moreover, Sims acquire a trait whenever players select an aspiration for them. However, players can change a Sim’s aspiration at any point in the game.

When players start a new game, it will ask them to create a Sim. Then, players will notice five options on the left side of the display. These options provide the ability to choose aspirations and traits. Although each aspiration is beneficial, some of them offer more aspiration points. With aspirations having levels of mastery, Sims that have fulfilled their aspirations can be the best mentors in the game.

Top 5 Aspirations To Earn More Aspiration Points

1. Painter Extraordinaire
2. Strangerville Mystery
3. Academic
4. World-famous Celebrity
5. Beach Life

Family Aspirations in Sim 4

Family aspirations allow players to achieve goals related to family life. In Sims’ 4 base game, there are only two family aspirations: Successful Lineage and Big Happy Family. However, the count of family aspirations increases with DLC packs.

Successful Lineage is a part of the game’s family aspirations and is directly linked to mentoring in Sims 4. Its goal is to raise your children and build their skills. Although to complete it, players need to mentor their adult children three times and help them to master a skill.

Successful Lineage is of four levels, and the tasks are:

• Level 1: Become an adult and spend a total of $1000 on kid’s products.
• Level 2: Become a parent, either by having a child or adopting one. Narrate a book for two hours to your kid and Socialize ten times with them.
• Level 3: Help your child to max a skill, get them to earn ‘A’ grade in school, and help them three times with their homework.
• Level 4: Mentor the kid three times, help them to complete an aspiration, and have them reach their highest career level.

How to Mentor in Sims 4

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I have always loved the Sims franchise because you can influence future generations and shape their lives. From getting your child into a private school in Sims 2 to teaching teens how to drive in Sims 3: Generations, raising sims for a bright future has always been a feature. But one of the most forgotten features of Sims 4 is knowing how to mentor from kids to adults– which can make a big difference in the way you play. 

So much of the marketing about Sims 4 now is about expressing yourself, which is more than ever with the past 2021 Season of Selves campaign and subsequent creator and celebrity spotlights. 

But in Sims 4’s earliest days, it was all about social life and impacting other sims. One of my favorite expansions to date, Sims 4: Get Together, very much embraced this, with its nuanced club’s system. The pack allows you to create your custom clubs, as well as enjoy cafes and some nightlife. Beautiful world and nightlife aside, though, it was the ability to influence other sims’ leisure time with curated and custom clubs that made a difference in gameplay.

Even if you’re playing one of the popular challenges in Sims 4, the truth is that your experience always is more or less about coming across other sims and interacting. But you may not be aware that one of the best ways to influence other sims has nothing to do with expansion pack content and is already in the base game.

In this article, I’ll explain the role of mentoring in Sims 4, why it matters for completing the Successful Lineage Aspiration, and my recommendations for how to mentor sims of any age. I’ll also guide you to some custom mods for PC and Mac players to enrich your mentoring experience.  

Before I discuss mentoring in Sims 4, it’s important to discuss both aspirations and skills- because both are intrinsically tied to why you’d want to pursue mentoring in the first place. In case you’re new to Sims 4, aspirations are the longer-term goals or dreams your Sim wishes to pursue. Every aspiration can be completed, and you can change aspirations in Sims 4, unlike the lifetime goals of past games. Full aspirations have 10 levels you progress through by accomplishing different tasks and goals, though there are shorter aspirations as well. In many ways, aspirations drive what your Sim does (if you so choose) and are a way to craft a storyline, challenge, and just distinguish your sims’ life from another sim.

You select your aspiration by navigating through Create A Sim. When you load up your game, you’ll see an option to start a new game. Once you select “New Game,” you’ll be directed to create a new sim or sims. The interface is intuitive even for those new to the sims. 

On the left side of your Sim, you’ll see a series of five question marks. This is where you select traits and aspirations. Aspirations are selected by clicking on the largest empty spot, and the subsequent spaces are where you select your traits. 

You’ll see a drop-down menu of all possible aspirations, organized by general category. Hover over each aspiration to read its description and understand the general concept. The base game comes with several aspirations– each of which have bonus traits. You can get more aspirations in Sims 4 either by buying expansion and game packs or by downloading Sims 4 mods for custom aspirations.  

One feature that a lot of simmers like in Sims 4 is that it’s flexible. You can complete and change aspirations (to change aspirations, edit your Sim in Create A Sim). It is possible to complete all aspirations, especially if you have the base game, but it’s increasingly more challenging as you acquire more aspirations through DLC. Once you complete all levels of aspiration, you’ll receive a reward trait, which is a perk that the Sim will have for life. This is true for all full aspirations you complete. 

Selecting your aspiration is up to you, and all swimmers have different theories. Some simmers select aspirations based upon a challenge they want to follow. I like to select aspirations based upon the type of story I want to tell. I make my decisions based upon thinking about what traits complement an aspiration– or make it fun by going against the expected. For instance, I might challenge norms by making a sim pursue a family-based aspiration but have them also be a snob and a bro. 

Skills are also connected to mentoring. Skills, which have been a mainstay of all Sims games, work more or less the same in Sims 4 as they did in previous games. While I’m not going to discuss all skills, think about skills as building blocks towards your goals. Certain skills are required for promotion in careers, and some skills impact how your Sim interacts with others, and can also be helpful for everyday living, from cooking to fixing broken appliances. 

Hidden skills, sometimes referred to as secret skills, won’t be immediately viewable on your Sim’s profile in-game. You won’t have hidden skills unless you have one or more of the following packs: Sims 4: Snowy Escape; Sims 4: Seasons; Sims 4: Fitness Stuff;  and Sims 4 Discover University. Hidden skills cannot be directly mentored, but must be gained through experience. See the chart above for hidden skills in Sims 4. 

There are several ways you improve your skills in Sims 4. You can often read a book about the topic, though I advise mixing it up. Most skills can be built with objects– for instance, using a treadmill or weightlifting machine will build your fitness skill, while playing chess and looking through a telescope build a logic skill. Certain activities may also improve your skills, such as social interactions, going on a run, and more. And there is one other way to improve your skills more effectively: through mentoring. 

Family-based aspirations have always been among my favorites, from The Sims 2 through the Sims 4. With a family aspiration, you’re pursuing goals that relate to family life. The base game comes with two family aspirations: Successful Lineage and Big Happy Family. If you have Parenthood, there’s also the Super Parent aspiration, while the Vampire Family aspiration comes from the Vampires game pack. Each is, of course, different, but all center around some aspects of family gameplay. 

The type of family aspiration may slightly change what traits you select for your sims. An obvious choice is Family-Oriented, which provides happiness buffs for hanging out with family members. From there, you have to decide what your goals are. Cheerful and Good sims may make interactions more pleasant. 

 Clean sims feel happy keeping your house tidy. If your Sim is not married yet, a flirty or romantic sim may help them find a spouse but could also pose challenges later on. Outgoing is another trait to consider.  

 Sometimes, I like to make things purposefully ironic and pick opposite traits– like Hates Children or Mean or Noncommittal– which is going to provide a contrast and make the aspiration more difficult to complete. 

Successful lineage is one of the base game family aspirations in Sims 4. The goal of the Successful Lineage aspiration is to raise your children to have success in school and build up their skills. Essentially you’re trying to set your sims’ kids up for success in life. 

The successful lineage aspiration is the one most directly related to mentoring in Sims 4. This aspiration has just four main stages, and each has its requirements. See the table below for each aspiration level and step– you’ll notice that you’ll need to know how to mentor a sim to complete the aspiration.

As you can see, the aspiration becomes increasingly more challenging as you progress, as while there are just four levels, it’s going to take you a long time to complete. First, you need to become a parent, then you need to raise that kid through elementary school and high school, and finally top their career. What I like about this aspiration is that unexpected challenges like mentoring can make this a longer-term aspiration vs some newer Sims 4 aspirations. Likewise, it makes for excellent family gameplay and storytelling. 

Keep in mind that mentoring is essential to complete the Successful Lineage aspiration–but it can be useful for other reasons as well. The point of mentoring is to gain skills through another sim– and you also get to spend some quality time with that Sim, too. However, there is a limit to the benefit: in my experience, it doesn’t make the other Sim learn skills faster. While this may be a glitch, one benefit is that mentoring another sim can be a way for them to be more social and makes for great storytelling. 

The number one thing you need to do: get a sim to a skill level of 10 and buy the Mentor Trait from the rewards store.  

Since the ability to mentor comes from the rewards store, you need to know how to get reward traits. By playing and achieving goals, you’ll earn satisfaction points. Completing steps of aspiration and following your Sim’s whims (enable them in your game menu) can both earn satisfaction points. You access the rewards store by selecting the aspirations section of your Sim’s profile. You’ll see a gift icon, which will take you to the store.

Note that you can also cheat for satisfaction points– though I find earning them more rewarding. After enabling cheats in your Sims 4 game (“Command + Shift + C” for Mac then testing cheats on,” then press ”Enter “or “CTRL + Shift + C for PC or hold down all four trigger buttons for console), see below for cheats. 

After cheats are enabled, enter, “Sims. Give_Satisfaction_Points X. X represents how many satisfaction points you want to cheat for. 

If you’ve searched for mentors to hire and come up with nothing, that’s because it works a little differently than hiring a typical service. There is no one place to find a mentor– though they often show up at the gym for exercise mentorships. The key is to find a sim who’s maxed out their skill in one of several areas. At a skill level 10, a sim gains the ability to mentor other sims in that skill. For instance, a sim with a fitness level 10 can mentor another sim at the gym to work out more efficiently. 

The good news is that you can mentor a child, teen, and even another adult. The way how to mentor a child is the same way to mentor a sim of any age. Once a sim has maxed out in skill, enter their household and play as them. That Sim will now have the option to mentor another sim when you select an item that is related to that skill. For example, a sim with a logic skill level of 10 should have a musical instrument placed nearby. 

If another sim is nearby, you should see an option to mentor that Sim when you click on the item. To summarize, to mentor another sim, you must:

• Have a Sim with a Skill Level 10 
• Must be a Skill You Can Mentor
• Buy the Mentor Trait from the Rewards Store
• Be Near an Object Related to that Skill Level
• Be Near another Sim

The main skills you can mentor another sim in include: fitness, gardening,  gym/ fitness, guitar, handiness, logic (chess), painting, piano, violin, and writing.  

Unfortunately, they haven’t expanded the mentoring to all skills. Cooking isn’t a skill you can directly mentor another sim in. 

To mentor fitness, visit a gym (or your home gym). Play as a sim with a max fitness level and click on any piece of equipment. You should be able to select a mentor.. and then a nearby sim. Keep in mind that you may have trouble mentoring a sim who isn’t in a good enough mood and/or doesn’t have sufficient needs met to do a workout. Alternatively, sometimes you can have a sim visit a gym, and another sim will offer to mentor them. This is not guaranteed, but it certainly does happen, especially if you visit a gym with a known fitness trainer like Marcus Flex. 

If you wish to mentor another sim in the painting skill, simply have a sim with a max painting skill level and place them near an easel. Click on the easel, and you should be able to mentor a nearby sim. 

Successful lineage simply requires your parent sim to mentor their teen or adult child sim three times. It doesn’t matter what skill it’s in for completing the aspiration– so you’ll need to max out a skill (fitness, gardening,  gym/ fitness, guitar, handiness, logic (chess), painting, piano, violin, and writing) and mentor your child in that skill. Simply find an item that’s linked to that skill for the mentor interaction. Invite your child over if they no longer live in the house or meet at a community lot where there’s an item you can use. 

Mods are by no means required for mentoring in Sims 4 but they can be helpful or change up your gameplay. I selected these mods based upon them supporting your gameplay for gaining relevant skills. All are from reputable creators and are fairly small, simple mods that shouldn’t load games down. Keep in mind that mods are only available for PC and Mac players, not for consoles. Mods are safe for Sims 4, so long as you’re downloading from a secure website. You put mods in your game by placing the downloaded file under your Mods folder under EA- Sims 4 on your computer documents. My disclaimer is that mods can break with updates. Make sure when you enter your game you go to the main menu and select “Enable Mods.” It’s recommended you then restart your game.  

When your Sim hits the max fitness level, they can no longer be mentored. That means, with a visit to the gym, trainers will always ignore your Sim. But if you want to be trained on a certain gym equipment piece, like the treadmill, this mod allows you to do just that, no matter what your skill level is. No longer will trainers ignore you. Download Here. 

This mod more or less does what you’d expect. The Faster Skills Mod comes in 6 options, depending on how much more quickly you want your Sim to acquire skills. Sims will acquire skills twice as fast, 4 times faster, 8 times faster, 16 times faster, 32 times faster, or 64 times faster. While I prefer to progress in skills at a normal rate, some may find this helpful if they’re trying to set up for a certain challenge or story. Make sure you only select and download one file so there aren’t conflicts. Download Here. 

On the other hand, there’s a mod that pretty much does the opposite: locks skills so that your Sim won’t inadvertently progress with you purposefully trying. Sims gain skills through everyday living. Every time they cook because they’re hungry, for example, they’re progressing in their cooking skills. This mod allows you to select any skills you want to lock so they will stay at their current level. Some like this as they feel it makes for a realistic sim. It may also be useful for a Sims 4 challenge. Download Here. 

I was really happy to see the Sims team add likes and dislikes to Sims 4, but as of now, no system truly impacts how easy or difficult it is for a sim to pick up certain skills. This mod allows you to toggle off skill gain for certain types of skills and enhance others. This allows your Sim to have a predisposition towards certain skills and feel challenged with others. You can select your own, though the gain will automatically generate two talents and two weaknesses. It’s a nice custom touch towards making your game and your sims more realistic. Download Here. 

Question: What Happens When you Complete all Child Aspirations Sims 4?

Answer: The child aspirations in Sims 4 include Artistic Prodigy, Rambunctious Scamp, Social Butterfly, and Whiz Kid. As is the case with other aspirations, you’ll be given satisfaction points as well as reward traits for every aspiration completed. The bonus traits aim to help your Sim continue to increase their skill level in that area and are a nice perk. 

Question: Do Sims Inherit Traits?

Answer: In past games, sims might inherit a trait from their parents. In Sims 4, you can either select traits or randomize traits independent of your parent’s traits. 

Question: How Do You Do the Aspiration Cheat on Sims 4?

Answer: The most popular cheat for aspirations in Sims 4 is aspirations.complete_current_milestone. This command allows you to accomplish whatever stage you’re at. 

Question: How Do You Max Out Your Fitness Skill in Sims 4?

Answer: Max out your fitness skill as you’d imagine: by getting active. You can use a treadmill, punching bag, and weight lifting machine by buying one or heading to a community gym. You can also simply take jogs or swim laps in a pool. If you have Fitness Stuff, you can use the rock climbing wall. Dancing also helps with fitness. Just make sure your Sim is in a good enough mood and their needs are sufficiently met– otherwise they may not do their workout. You could even form a club dedicated to fitness if you own the Sims 4: Get Together expansion pack. 

Knowing how to mentor in Sims 4 is useful for completing the Successful Lineage aspiration, but it’s certainly not a must for everyday gameplay. I see mentoring as a fun activity in Sims 4, and it can make for realistic gameplay. 

You can mentor in Sims 4 without buying any Sims 4 packs. But if you do love aspirations like the Successful Lineage, you likely love family gameplay. Your best bet is my favorite game pack– Sims 4: Parenthood. This game pack adds new family activities, a parenting skills system, and the ability to impact your child’s upbringing with character values and more. It also comes with versatile build/ buy items I use all the time, and, of course, CAS (create a sim) items for all ages. 

Continue reading:

Complete Guide to Sims 4 Gameplay Mastery

Sims 4 Toddler Skills Guide: How to Choose the Right Skills and Activities

Guide to Sims 4 Careers: Careers List

Parenting Skill in The Sims 4: Parenting

The new Parenting Skill in The Sims 4: Parenting Playset is essential for parents who want to raise happy, well-behaved kids. It consists of 10 levels, and you can develop it in several ways: with the help of books, browsing parenting forums on a computer, or taking care of children. By increasing the skill level, parents can provide parenting advice, help improve bad moods and meet the needs of children, and influence their behavior.

If you need to do something around the house, you can ask the child about it, and in case of disobedience, even force it, leaving the child no choice. However, even spoiling the relationship between parents and children for a while, in the long run it will pay off by improving the virtues of character. For example, having a child wash the dishes in the house will increase their mannerism score, which in turn will affect the character traits that the child will acquire as an adult.

Sometimes children can throw riots or even tantrums, and teenagers have mood swings. You can gently ask the child not to make a mess, strictly forbid or yell at him. Teenagers who suffer from mood swings sometimes need to let off steam. A responsible parent can help with all this.

Strict parents can punish their children and put them under house arrest (maximum for a day). You can also designate things that the child cannot do during house arrest, such as watching TV or using a computer. A child that you caught violating the prohibition can be forbidden something again.

The skill is very useful for parents with babies whose needs are not visible to the player, as it allows non-verbal indications of what the player needs.

Level	Outcome
1	Your Sim can now encourage good behavior and ask children to clean up. He may also chastise the child for bad behavior, ask him not to do it again, or simply yell at him to stop.
2	Your character is now able to convince children to do their homework and firmly demand that they behave well. He can also choose from more options during learning moments.
3	Your character can now help children with basic needs (needs, hygiene, leisure), as well as give parenting advice to other parents.
4	Your character can now punish. You will have more information about how your advice will affect the child.
5	Your character can now place naughty children under house arrest. Or just discuss bad behavior, hug and forgive. You also have more ways to help your child with their needs.
6	Your character can now comfort other parents when they are having a hard time with their children. When caring for babies, you see exactly what the baby needs.
7	Your Sim is now better at helping a child with their needs. In addition, it is more effective in persuading the child to do certain actions.
8	Your character now has three choices when learning. He is more effective in applying punishment.
9	Your Sim is now persuasive enough to get the child to do what they ask, like washing the dishes. He also knows where his advice will lead in the moment of learning.
10	Your character can now use the "Super Effective Baby Care" special action to solve all the baby's problems at once. He has become adept at parenting and can now enter super-parent mode, in which his needs become unimportant.

How to raise the perfect baby in The Sims 4.

Contents

• Daytime nap
• The first floor of the house - for kids only
• Read a story before bed
• Develop thinking skills
• Daily routine

However, raising a toddler in a family that already has multiple Sims can be challenging. In fact, most working Sim parents will no doubt grapple with these issues as they arise. The good news is that there are a few tricks and tips to implement that make raising toddlers a breeze, even with a career, two pets, and a few other kids.

Daytime naps

As babies are still developing and growing, they obviously need more rest, just like babies in real life. Quite often you can see that their energy requirement depletes faster during the day. If left unattended, toddlers will be very annoyed by the end of the day.

The solution to this problem is simple: make sure the baby takes a nap sometime in the middle of the day, preferably in the afternoon. This will allow him to then have a normal night's sleep without going to bed very early and waking up in the middle of the night.

Ground floor in house - kids only

Players who have a separate house, with several floors in particular, benefit from all the space they have when starting a family. However, when it comes to toddlers, it's best to make sure they have a room on the ground floor and not somewhere else.

This is because it takes them a while to get down the stairs on their own. Especially since they crawl up the steps at the speed of a turtle! Otherwise, they have to be carried by their parents, which requires extra free time when Sims need to do something in a hurry. Therefore, avoid placing a ladder between the baby and his basic needs.

Read a story before bed

Many babies get a whim at some point that makes them want to listen to a story read by their parent. At first glance, this may seem like just an enjoyable activity, but it definitely cannot be ignored.

Toddlers who are read to are less likely to wake up at night, which in turn allows parents to sleep longer and get to work more energetic the next morning. This is a special thing (whim) that helps the whole house, first of all.

Develop thinking skills

There is nothing more annoying with a baby than his outbursts of anger and defiance. When parents just want to make sure everything goes smoothly, it's a real headache to argue with a toddler who just doesn't want to obey. He throws food, he spills paint, he breaks toys, and so on.

That's why one of the first skills to develop in babies is the skill of Thinking. Toddlers will not only be more obedient, they will also be more independent and able to take care of themselves rather than constantly relying on their parents for help.

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