Toddler



Toddler is the second life stage in The Sims 2, and it lasts for 4 days. It is the youngest life stage that can be created in Create-A-Sim. All toddlers have the Grow Up aspiration and can start earning aspiration points, although they won't be available to redeem them until they are teens, unless the The FreeTime Expansion Pack is installed (note: the manual suggests this isn't possible, but it actually is - this may be a bug and could change in an upcoming patch).

When a baby turns into a toddler, most of it's genetic traits become visible for the first time, it's personality and interests are visible and it is controllable. Toddlers require the most attention of any life stage given their lack of independence, and can be taught 3 core skills: Walking, talking, and potty training. Once potty trained, a toddler will be able to use the potty for itself, but they still depend on adults to put them to bed and feed them. It should be noted that toddlers can be fed through a bottle or by putting them in their highchairs. Toddlers can gain skill points in Charisma, Creativity and Logic from their toys. FreeTime also lets them gain charisma by being taught a nursery rhyme from any older Sim - once learned the toddler can sing independently and gain enthusiasm for music & dance.

Like babies, toddlers can be removed by a social worker if certain motives are allowed to drop critically low. Other than that, as of FreeTime, there is no other way to take them off the lot.

After 4 days, the toddler becomes a child.

Player Tips
Skills are essential, but they suck away at your needs. Plus the toddlers learn so SLOW. Here's a way I figured out how to get them to learn their stuff quick & easy.

NOTE: This requires the "maxmotives" cheat, and cheats can mess up your game. Maxmotives hasn't messed up my game yet, but it can. Also it requires the Pasteur's Smart Milk aspiration reward. Start hoarding aspiration pronto.
 * 1) Grow up your baby into a toddler.
 * 2) Open the cheat window (ctrl+shift+c). Type in "maxmotives", just like it is written here. Everyone on the lot's motives will be full.
 * 3) Put the toddler's and one adult's aspiration bar in gold or platinum in any way.
 * 4) Acquire the Pasteur's Smart Milk aspiration reward and feed your toddler some Smart Milk. Then teach them the skills.

Toddlers only need to be feed Smart Milk once. They will continue to learn skills quickly.

Another way to do this is without cheating. Once your aspiration points are high enough, buy both the thinking cap (lightbulb on top) and smart milk. The Smart Milk will speed up the process of learning by two. The Thinking Cap will also speed up the process by two as well. Put these together and the process is sped up by four times as much! Be sure both aspirations are in either Gold or Platinum.