The Sims 4 Successful Lineage Aspiration
If your sims want their kids to be successful you should play with the sims 4 successful lineage aspiration.
This aspiration has your sims focusing their attention on their children’s skill gains, their grades, and their future careers!
Domestic Bonus Trait
When you start your sim with a family aspiration in the game you’ll get the domestic bonus trait. This trait’s description reads “Domestic sims will see their familial relationships grow stronger faster.”
This reward trait is great because your sims will have easy strong relationships with everyone in their immediate family!
Best Traits for The Sims 4 Successful Lineage Aspiration
If you want to maximize your experience in this aspiration you should focus your attention on the traits your sim has. Here’s a few traits that can be good for this aspiration:
- Family Oriented: Sims who are family oriented like to spend more time around their children, this is nice because they’ll be helping them with homework all the time!
- Cheerful: A cheerful sim is a happy sim and happy sims are easier to take care of.
- Domestic: This is the trait you get when you start with a family aspiration and it helps your sims grow family relationships faster.
- Mentor: This is a trait you get for 1,000 satisfaction points from the reward store. It gives your sims even more boosts to skills when mentoring.
You should always add some lot traits to make your sims gain skills faster or even do homework quicker too:
- Study Spot: This lot trait comes with The Sims 4: Discover University and gives skill boosts to all skills. The best part for this aspiration is that it makes sims of ALL AGES do their homework more quickly!
- Good Schools: This lot trait comes with The Sims 4: City Living and makes all sims get higher grades which is helpful for getting an A in school.
- Child’s Play: This trait comes with The Sims 4: City Living and has all children learning faster here which can be helpful when trying to finish a kid’s aspiration.
Stages of the Sims 4 Successful Lineage Aspiration
There are four stages of the sims 4 successful lineage aspiration to work through. You’ll find tasks like helping sims with homework, getting them to an A in school or reaching the top of a career.
Stage One: Readily a Parent
- Become an Adult
The first part of this aspiration is just to become an adult. Easy! Either start with an adult (or young adult, that works too) that you create in CAS or age up a sim from teen to young adult to satisfy this need.
- Spend §1000 on Kids’ Stuff
Before you have your first child you’ll want to be prepared, so get their nursery ready. You can purchase anything that’s in the children’s category from toys to furniture to doll houses and all of them will apply to your §1000 spend.
Stage Two: Caregiver
Reading with children is so important for their development, and reading is good for sims too! To start you need to make sure you have appropriate books.
You can click on a bookcase and choose open to see every book inside. If you have a child or toddler book available you can use those.
If you don’t have these books you can purchase them. To purchase books you need to click on a bookcase and choose purchase books and a menu will open. You can sort by type of book to choose children’s and purchase a child or toddler book from this menu.
These books will end up in the bookcase and you can click open to drag it into your sim’s inventory and from there you can click on the book and choose to read it to your child.
The next thing you need to do is become a parent, of course. There are so many ways you can do this. This can apply when you create a family in CAS, when you have a child through pregnancy, or when you adopt a child.
- Socialize With Your Child 10 Times
This is one of the easiest parts of this aspiration because all you need to do is 10 individual social interactions with your sim’s child.
Make sure they’re friendly interactions so you can keep their relationship high!
Stage Three: Trusted Mentor
Helping with homework is so good because when an adult helps them you can get homework done so much faster. To do this you need to get your child or teen to start their homework by clicking on it in their inventory and choosing do homework.
The sim will sit at an available table and start working. Then, you’ll control the sim who is working on the sims 4 successful lineage aspiration and click on the child and choose help with homework.
The adult will sit with the sim if there’s a chair available or stand near them to help and the homework will get done faster.
- Have a Child Earn an A in High School
To have your sim’s child earn an A in high school they first need to be a teenager. When they’re finally old enough to go to high school you can start doing homework by clicking on the blue high school homework book in their inventory. You need to do their homework every day before they go back to school to increase their performance.
When your sim has a B grade they’ll unlock the ability to do extra credit. This appears after your sim has done their homework when you click on their homework again. Extra credit is a great way to improve your sim’s performance.
When a sim is at school you can click on them and change their behaviour from normal to get them to study harder. They will come home with low fun need and a tense moodlet, but it can be worth it to get an A quicker.
Pro Tip: Get your teen to reach level 4 of the programming skill and you can hack school grades to get an increase in their grades without effort.
If you have The Sims 4: Parenthood you can also get your sim to do school projects for extra credit. These will sometimes be sent home from school but you can also purchase them from the build menu to work on whenever you want to increase your sim’s grades.
The best part about school projects is that your sim will gain skills when they’re doing it. If a teen works on the robotics project they’ll gain the programming skill. Plus, you can get an adult to help them work on it to get it done quicker!
- Have a Child Max Any Skill
Having a child max any skill applies to anyone from child to teenager. Sadly, this means you can’t do it with the easy to gain skills for toddlers.
You can check out all of our skill guides for more information on how to gain skills for sims to see specifically how to gain a skill to max it.
Stage Four: Successful Lineage
When a sim reaches level 5 of most skills they unlock the ability to mentor other sims in that skill. The benefit of mentoring is that the target sim will gain the skill so much more quickly than if they were learning on their own.
To do this you can click on an item that your sim has level 5 of that children can also use (i.e., chess tables, pianos, violins) and choose mentoring and choose to mentor that child.
You can also click on the item when controlling the child and choose ask for mentoring and then the sim will come and assist the child!
- Have a Child Complete an Aspiration
Once your sim is a child they will have aspirations available to them. There’s aspirations about being creative, aspirations about being smart, and more. You just need to complete one of these aspirations in the game.
This doesn’t just apply to children, you can also choose to finish an aspiration for a teen. However, the child aspirations are so much quicker to finish than teen-adult aspirations so it’s smart to choose a child level aspiration.
- Have a Child or Grandchild Reach the Top of a Career
This is the most time consuming part of this aspiration because it requires a sim to raise a child and then have them join a career. Then work their way through that entire career. It’s a ton of work, but I know you can do it!
Pro Tip: If you haven’t completed this section yet and your sim is about to die you have options! Keep your sim alive by using satisfaction points to purchase a potion of youth. This will set your sim’s age back to the beginning of their current life stage.
Vicarious Reward Trait
When your sim is able to finish the sims 4 successful lineage aspiration they’ll be given the vicarious reward trait. The trait’s description reads “By being vicarious, your children’s skill gains can contribute to your own!”
This is such a useful reward trait because any time your child earns a skill, your sim will gain some of that skill too. Imagine getting good at something without ever doing it? Amazing.
