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Couples Counseling allows sims to help their friends who are Furious with each other to make up. Get all three on the same lot and select the interaction "Repair Relationship." The sim will talk to each in turn, then bring them together and they'll lose their Furious state. This does not have an appreciable effect on their relationship scores - those will have to be built up over time. But at least they should stop slapping and poking each other.
Parenting allows sims to "Check on" babies, causing the baby to generate a thought bubble with the icon for their current lowest need. Usually this is bladder, alas, but it happens often with me that I'll cancel a trip to the fridge to "check on" and get bed icon, indicating that the baby is sleepier than it is hungry. I can then put the baby into the crib and give everyone in the family something else to do so they don't wake it up to shove another bottle in.
Anger Management reduces the severity and length of the Furious condition.
Lifelong Happiness reduces the rate of aspiration decay.
Physiology, when it's working correctly, allows a boost in the rate of learning certain skills. It is almost never working correctly, however! If you haven't fixed the glitch, it will cause incredibly rapid advancement of any skill, so that - for example - an afternoon of jumping rope maxes out the body skill.
Have I missed anything? I have a feeling there's six of these but I can't think of another one.
How useful any of these skills is will depend on your playing style. Some people get almost no use out of them and regard them as pointless. Some of them provide useful benchmarks for challenge play, such as the BACC, in which once the legal career is open it can only be taken by someone who has learned Couples Counseling, and once the medical career is open only someone who has learned Physiology can take it. And some people, like me, make active use of them in game play. I use the Check On baby feature all the time, Couples Counseling occasionally, Anger Management and Lifelong Happiness for sims whose character it suits.
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