Grow Up

If your looking for how to Grow up, please see Birthday.

The Grow Up aspiration is carried by every toddler and child until they reach teen-hood in The Sims 2. It's like a combination of the knowledge, family, and pleasure aspirations.

Babies
Babies are unselectable and do not have wants/fears/aspirations.

The only way to select babies is to type in the cheat boolprop testingcheatsenabled true. Then right click on the baby and press selectable. Right click the baby, choose unselectable, and finally right click and choose selectable. You must do it twice to fully select baby.

Toddlers
For toddlers this means that they wish to learn how to walk, talk, and be potty trained, as well as "Grow Up Well". To grow up well the Sim must be at the gold aspiration level or higher.

Toddlers have high-scoring wants to learn how to walk, talk and be potty trained. Some other wants for toddlers are being read to and being played with by a relative (generally a parent).

Meter Level for toddlers:
 * Platinum: Miracle Mite
 * Gold: Precocious Preschooler
 * Upper Green: Little Wonder
 * Lower Green: Diaper Filler
 * Mild Red: Hectic Handful
 * Deep Red: Rotten Rugrat

Children
Sim children wish to learn how to study, as well as "Grow Up Well". Same with the toddlers, to grow up well the Sim must be at the gold aspiration level or higher.

Children have high-scoring wants to make friends and gain good grades at school.

Meter Level for children:
 * Platinum: Child Prodigy
 * Gold: Wonder Boy / Wonder Girl
 * Upper Green: Gifted Kid
 * Lower Green: Typical Tyke
 * Mild Red: Bothersome Brat
 * Deep Red: Neglected Nightmare

Teens
Once Sims grow into teens, a dialog box opens which allows the player to choose one of the aspirations (Fortune, Knowledge, Romance, Family, Grilled Cheese, Popularity, or Pleasure).

Desperations
Toddlers and children have high-impact fears over relatives dying, growing up badly, and their parents breaking up (if they are married).

When their aspiration bar stays at deep red for a long time, toddlers will cry and whine, and children will smash flower beds, urns, tombstone and kick the trash can.