Parenting may be the hardest gameplay introduced to the Sims 4 yet. It takes patience, perseverance, and tons of energy to give your children the attention they need and deserve. Don’t have time for all that? That's what cheats are for. If you want to enjoy the new gameplay without putting in long hours, here’s everything you need. Shout out to TwistedMexi and Zerbu for these. Make sure to drop these two some love for once again blessing the Sims forums with the following cheats in such a timely manner.
READ: 'Parenthood' Guide: How To Build Character Value, Parenting Skill And Handle Phases
There’s a few different ways you can approach these cheats. If you just want an easier way to help your children gain character value, the best way is to simply use the parenting skill cheat. This way, you won’t have to read any parenting books or research for tips online, but you’ll get to see how your children evolve with your direction. You’ll have all the parenting social options available right off the bat, which will help you control your children’s behavior and shape what kind of person they become. Otherwise, if you’re starting from parenting zero, it’s going to be a lot harder to assist their growth.
To start, make sure testing cheats is enabled. Press Control + Shift +C to access command. Enter: testingcheats true or testingcheats on . If you get a message that reads 'cheats enabled,’ then you know you’ve done it right. Don’t forget that after testing cheats are enabled, you can always Shift + Click the selected Sim and access ‘Make Happy,’ which will max out all needs.
PARENTING SKILL CHEAT
stats.set_skill_level AdultMajor_Parenting
Example: stats.set_skill_level AdultMajor_Parenting 10
CHARACTER VALUE CHEATS
Having trouble developing a certain character value trait? Or, want to decrease one of the character values? Use the following cheat to raise or lower the value. The scale is -100 to 100.
For example: stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_Empathy 100
Empathy: stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_Empathy
Manners : stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_Manners
Responsibility: stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_Responsibility
Conflict Resolution: stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_ConflictResolution
Emotional Control: stats.set_stat lifeSkillStatistic_EmotionalControl
CHARACTER VALUE TRAITS CHEATS
These are the outcome of the character value meters, which will basically turn into one of the following traits when the teen ages to a young adult. Use these cheats to play around with the traits. You can even award a trait to an adult that you didn’t age up from a teen. Opposite traits cannot be on at the same time. For example, you can’t have good manners and bad manners. You’ll need to use traits.remove_trait to get rid of one first.
Good Manners: traits.equip_trait GoodManners
Bad Manners: traits.equip_trait BadManners
Responsible: traits.equip_trait LifeSkills_Responsible
Irresponsible: traits.equip_trait Irresponsible
Mediator: traits.equip_trait Mediator
Argumentative: traits.equip_trait Argumentative
Compassionate: traits.equip_trait Compassionate
Insensitive: traits.equip_trait LifeSkills_Unfeeling
Emotional Control: traits.equip_trait EmotionalControl
Uncontrolled: traits.equip_trait Uncontrolled
CHILDHOOD PHASES
These are treated as temporary phases in the code and two conflicting traits can’t be activated at once. If the cheat isn’t working, you probably need to traits.remove_trait first. Some phases are exclusive to children or teens. There’s different levels to picky eater, which get progressively worse alphabetically.
[For children only] Clingy: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_Clingy
Picky Eater A: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_PickyEater_A
Picky Eater B: traits.equip_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_B
Picky Eater C: traits.equip_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_C
Picky Eater D: traits.equip_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_D
Picky Eater E: traits.equip_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_DisgustedByFood
Picky Eater F: traits.equip_trait childhoodphase_PickyEater_F
Loud: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_Loud
Rebellious: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_Rebellious
Mean Streak: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_MeanStreak
[For children only] Bear: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_Bear
[For teens only] Distant: traits.equip_trait ChildhoodPhase_Distant
REMOVING NEGATIVE MOODS
Removing a negative moodlet is quite simple. This will come in handy for toddlers with the fussy and clingy trait, as well as teenagers angry mood swings. Be careful, because this will get rid of moods like ‘happy’ too. So only use it in bad situations: Sims.remove_all_buffs
OTHER RELEVANT CHEATS
These toddler cheats might be helpful too. Maxing out a toddler skills and needs will make it easier to just focus on parenting. Taking care of a toddlers needs on top of all these new parental requirements is not an easy task, especially if there’s multiple kids in the household. In case you need more on toddlers, here’s our guide as well. If you’re looking to grow your family with a member of every life stage, you may need these pregnancy cheats too.
