I wouldn't call toddlers boring, I would call them ANNOYING AS ALL HELL; this is great, thank you!

You can just buy them a birthday cake and let them blow out the candles whenever you want...

Yeah, but then you are cutting time out of their total lifespans, this way the time is just allotted differently. So instead of robbing them of a few days of life, you're just transferring those days to a different age group.

I love that the extra days are added onto their childhood! I've seen other mods that just shorten both, but I love playing children and I always thought the childhood should be longer than toddlerhood and teenhood, anyway. (People are really only toddlers for a couple years, whereas they should be in grade school for longer than they are in high school, right?) I love this, it's wonderful!

Yep. This affects Sims who you don't actually play as, too.

This is terrific, Thanks!

I wonder if it would be doable to make a change to the entire age structure to mimic an "average" human life of 75 years where baby is 2 years, toddler is 3, child is 7, teen is 7, young adult is 5, adult is 31, and elder is at least 20.

The multipliers based on 75 years are:

B .026
t .04
C .093
T .093
Y .066
A .413
E .266

The resulting stages (with rounding up) would be:

Span 25 50 90 190 960
Stage
B 1 2 3 5 25
t 1 2 4 8 39
C 3 5 9 18 90
T 3 5 9 18 90
Y 2 4 6 13 64
A 11 21 38 79 397
E 7 14 23 51 256
Ttl 28 53 92 192 961

The rounding up gives 1 to 3 extra days, but since elder is an 'at least' figure, the result could be modifies on that stage only... or give the elderly a bit more time!

I am so thankful you created this! I have been looking for this for a while now. I love the child age and it is way to short! One week? No way, I dont have enough time to play around and have fun before teenage and worrying about skills and boy/girlfriends. I literally have checked every aging mod out there, and they all do the same thing..shorten the childhood! Thank you thank you thank you!

Thats awesome. I Hate toddlers and was upset when Maxis added them. I personally liked back in sims 1 where they went from infant to child. now I just need a mod to lengthen my teen sims or Maxis needs to give me my college sims back. Totally miss my collage simmies. ;.;

i use cheats to age them up, birthday cakes are dangerous, my kid sim was on fire while using the cake, she could die, or worser, a social worker could take her o_o, and i hate toddlers, there cute but hard to live with, i want to give my toddler food, but she don't want it so she pushed it till it falls on the floor, the toddler al happy, my sim cleaning the kitchen :S that spoiled kid.

Is this compatible with the latest patch and Ambitions?

It's been great so far, I don't want to lose it!

This is actually a pretty good idea... Maybe I'll make this for myself. I always imagined young adults being into their early 30s or so, though.



I have Ambitions but not the latest patch and works fine for me. I would bet nearly anything that it works with the lastest patch too, though.

Can you tell me what XML file you changed?

I just went into options and shortened my toddlers to 2days and left the children at 7...

I'm awful at math and it's really confusing to calculate the different choices. If I wanted the toddler stage to be roughly 3 days...which one do I choose?

Why not just use the Maxis options panel?

No offense, but you do realize that in the options panel you can use the sliders to change the length of any life stage? So if you want to shorten the toddler stage you can, and add those days to the child stage....

I'm not sure if this is just a Generations thing but this MOD is really unnecessary.