Like with adult jobs, Anna's performance meter climbs if she goes to school, and it goes up further if she goes to school in the right mood and/or with her homework done. Anna even has a performance meter in her Career Panel. There is school to attend each day in the morning, and for all intents and purposes, it's their job. Unfortunately, children cannot spend their entire day learning skills or playing with friends. For Anna, it would mean earning a trait that would significantly boost the gain rates of all adult creative skills, which would give her a huge boost to her future professional artistry career! If a child manages to finish her childhood aspiration, she will permanently gain an incredibly powerful Trait that cannot be activated any other way. Still, during childhood, remember that skills are less important than aspirations. While Anna sketches on her activity table, Christine uses the “Encourage” social command on her, immediately giving her a huge boost and allowing Anna to quickly roll through her levels of Creativity. However, specializing in one or two is advised, especially because adults can help them out. They all have a maximum level of 10, but it's unlikely that you will be able to max all four before they grow up. If Anna develops her artistic skills this early, she'll be able to blaze through the first few levels of Painting in very little time once she becomes a Teenager.Ĭhildren have only four skills: Creativity, Mental, Motor, and Social. Child skills are all temporary and will vanish when they age up, but their skills will give them a headstart on the normal skills. Maybe Christine does this just to inspire her?Ĭhildren who are born during the week get a full day before they have to show up to school, so Anna takes the day to draw some pictures and work on her skills.Ĭhildren use a different set of Skills than adults. Christine also places an easel in Anna's room, but this is pointless children cannot use most adult objects that increase skills. The activity table is usable only by children and will develop one of their skills. Christine uses Build Mode to place it into the family inventory, then outfits one of the two spare bedrooms with a child bed and an activity table. Now that she's a child, the bassinet is no longer used. As such, we'll give her the Artistic Prodigy aspiration. For Anna National, we will have her focus on being a professional painter once she hits adulthood. All four are focused on building the children's skills, and can give the child a huge headstart on adult life if we plan ahead. Her list of traits is not complete some, like Romantic, wouldn't make sense, but most of the list is available.Ĭhildhood aspirations are simplified versions of several normal Aspirations. We are to give Anna a Childhood Aspiration and one Trait.

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