The Sims 4 Super Parent Aspiration
If you want to be the absolute best parent you should play through the sims 4 super parent aspiration.
This aspiration comes with The Sims 4: Parenthood and has you working on your children’s character values.
Domestic Bonus Trait
When you start a sim with any of the family aspirations they’ll get the domestic bonus trait given to them for life. This trait makes it easier for your sims to become friends with their children which is so nice.
Having a good relationship with your children is great for trying to make them do things because when you have a bad relationship they are less likely to listen.
Best Traits for The Sims 4 Super Parent Aspiration
The traits your sims have are important to making them successful at aspirations. Here’s some traits that can help you finish off this aspiration:
- Family Oriented: Sims who are family oriented get happy moodlets when they are around their family.
- Cheerful: A cheerful sim gets happy moodlets randomly and happy sims are going to get better reactions from their children than if they were angry or sad.
You can also add some lot traits to your sim’s house to improve your experience:
- Good Schools: This lot trait comes with The Sims 4: City Living and makes it so your children do better in school and finish homework faster. Kids who do well in school gain positive character values!
- Child’s Play: This lot trait also comes with City Living and helps kids learn skills faster.
Stages of The Sims 4 Super Parent Aspiration
There are four stages of this aspiration that you’ll need to work through. You’ll have a bunch of tasks from gaining the parenting skill to having your kids have positive character values. Whenever you finish them you’ll get satisfaction points as a reward!
Stage One: Readily a Parent
- Become an Adult
The very first thing you need to do is become an adult. This is satisfied when the sim with this aspiration becomes a young adult or older. You can do this by aging them up from teen to young adult or by creating them as an adult in create-a-sim.
- Spend §1000 on Kids’ Stuff
The next part of this aspiration is to spend §1000 on kids’ stuff which applies to anything under the kids category including for infants and toddlers. Use this as a moment to decorate a cute bedroom for your kids or a nursery for a baby!
Stage Two: Offspring Instructor
Your next task is to become a parent and you have a few options for doing this:
- Create a child for your sim in create-a-sim when you start your family
- Have a baby with another sim through woohoo
- Have a science baby by yourself using your sim’s phone
- Adopt a baby using your sim’s phone
Once the baby is born or arrives on your lot through adoption this part will be satisfied.
The parenting skill needs to be gained throughout this aspiration so you can have an easier time raising your sim’s children. Gaining this skill is done through any parenting interactions you do with your kids like disciplining them, helping them with homework and more.
You can even read parenting skill books to gain the skill while your kids are at school or napping!
- Discipline your Child, Toddler, or Teen 5 Times
From time to time your children are going to do something naughty like making a mess on the floor. When they do these things you can discipline them by clicking discipline recent behavior.
When you click on this there will be options and you’ll get more options depending on your sim’s level of the parenting skill. You can choose calm, strict or firm depending on how you want to parent your children and there will be options for each and all of them will satisfy this need.
Oddly enough, you can also encourage your sims to do things to satisfy this need as well. So, if your sim does their homework, sets the table or cleans up a mess you can click to encourage the behaviour and it will count too.
Stage Three: Character Coach
There are two ways you can help a child with their school work. The first way is to help them with their regular homework that they need to do everyday.
To do this get your child to do their homework by clicking on it and choose do homework and then control the adult sim and click on the child and choose help with homework.
This also applies to school projects. From time to time your kids will come home from school with school projects they need to do. These can also be purchased from the build menu!
After a child has started working on their project you can have the adult click on them and choose assist with project to work toward this.
To keep getting the parenting skill just keep hanging out with your kids and doing parenting interactions. These include things like teaching your kids to say sorry, teaching them to say thank you, and more. You can also read those parenting skill books too!
- Have a Child With a Character Value Within Range to Receive a Trait
Character values are smart to pay attention to because your sims will get great traits when they age up to young adults. You’ll find these in the sim’s simology panel and they will have 5 values they can work on.
When you hover over each you’ll see a description of each and all the information you need to know how to increase (or decrease) that value for your sim. For example, a sim would gain responsibility by doing things like:
- Doing Homework
- Taking Out The Trash
- Cleaning Up Their Toys
- Brushing Their Teeth
You’ll satisfy this need when your sim’s child has it in the end range where they would gain the trait if they aged up.
Stage Four: Super Parent
To complete this aspiration your sim will need to reach level 10 of the parenting skill. Like we’ve discussed this skill is gained by doing parenting interactions like teaching your kids to say sorry or doing encouragement or discipline actions.
You can also read skill books to gain this skill while your kids are at school. If you have The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure in your game you can add the peace and quiet lot trait to your sim’s house to gain skills from books faster!
If you want to just cheat this skill to finish this part you can use stats.set_skill_level major_parenting 10 to max it out!
When a sim reaches level 10 of that parenting skill they are going to unlock the ability to go into full parent mode. This is one of my favourite parts of the parenting skill because it lets you do things without worrying about the parent.
When your sim has this moodlet they are going to have their needs no longer decrease for the entirety of the time they have the moodlet active, which is game changing.
To get your sim into full-parent mode you just need to do a whole bunch of parenting interactions back to back. The easiest way to get into this is to do a bunch of baby interactions over and over in a short period of time.
You can do it with kids of any age, but it’s easiest with babies because they just lay there and are easy to care for.
- Have a Child With 3 Positive Character Value Traits
In a previous task for this aspiration you had your child get into the range for a character values trait, but now you need to age up with at least 3 positive traits. Each character value has a positive or negative trait the sim can get from it depending on their point values.
The range for character values goes from -100 points to +100 points and anything in the +90 (ish) range or higher will get your sim that trait when they age up.
Since your sim only needs 3 of these traits you can just focus on three of them. The easiest ones to gain are responsibility, manners and empathy so those are good to focus on. Here’s some tasks you can do for each:
- Responsibility
- Doing homework
- Taking out the garbage
- Brushing their teeth
- Cleaning up toys
- Cleaning up messes
- Manners
- Friendly introductions
- Teaching them to say please and thank you
- Washing dishes
- Giving compliments
- Setting the table
- Empathy
- Volunteering as a family
- Cheering up sad sims
- Calming down angry sims
- Playing with the doctor play set
- Conflict Resolution
- Apologizing
- Parents teaching them to say sorry
- Begging for forgiveness
- Emotional Control
- Writing in a journal
- Blogging about feelings
- Jogging to Clear Mind
Your sim will need to be in the +90 range for these traits when they age up from a teenager to a young adult for this to happen!
Role Model Reward Trait
When your sim finishes the sims 4 super parent aspiration they are going to get the role model reward trait. This trait’s description reads “Gives bonus character value scoring when near toddlers, children, or teens.”
This means that when your sim is in the room with their children and they do something to earn character value points, they’ll get more than normal. Role model is great if you have lots of kids to raise but have already finished the aspiration and want the other kids to be good people too!
