Grow Up

All Sims have the Grow Up Aspiration when they're young, and they all need the same thing: love, time and attention from their family. See to it the other Sims around them make the time to teach these young'uns what they need to learn, and you'll give them a great head start on life.

The Grow Up aspiration is the default aspiration of toddlers and children in The Sims 2. Some wants and fears are specific to toddlers, while others are specific to children. While the aspiration is exclusive to Children and Toddlers, some pre-made grown-ups have hidden Grow Up aspiration tokens, like Julius Caesar.

Wants

 * Learn to walk
 * Learn to talk
 * Get potty trained
 * Learn the nursery rhyme
 * Gain a skill point
 * Grow up well
 * Be read to
 * Play with a relative
 * Buy a toy


 * Buy a game
 * Make a friend
 * Gain a skill point
 * Ask for homework help.
 * Get A+ on report card
 * Do homework
 * New family member
 * Buy a lemonade stand

Fears

 * Grow up badly
 * Throw up
 * Relative dies
 * Have a party


 * Relatives break up
 * Get D on report card
 * Have a terrible party
 * Relative gets left at the altar

Aspiration Desperation

 * When a toddler's aspiration bar stays deep red for a long time, they will cry, whine, and throw a tantrum. A social worker may come and take them.
 * When a child's aspiration bar stays high red for a long time, they will smash flowerbeds, dollhouses and urns, kick tombstones and trashcans, and throw tantrums. Some may even start fights with a family member or a visiting Sim.

Tips & Tricks
Using boolProp testingcheatsenabled, adults can be given the Grow Up aspiration, but it does not have any exclusive wants and fears.

Trivia

 * When a child grows up into a teen, it is possible to quickly age them up into an adult as the age meter stays full for about a second. Doing so will result in the adult retaining the grow up aspiration. The aspiration meter ranks are the same as the ones for the romance aspiration.
 * Interrupting the aging process from a child into a teen by resetting the Sim, with a cheat or other method, can cause the prompt to select the Sim's aspiration to not appear, and as a result retain the grow up aspiration.
 * Teens and older who age up while having the grow up aspiration will have a message that claims that they "achieved the Aspiration Level of . That's terrible!" as if they had aged up while at a critically low aspiration level.
 * There is an old game file string which suggests that this aspiration was originally intended to be for teenagers as well, and was possibly the successor of the Power aspiration.