5 Ways To Raise Every Character Value | The Sims 4 Parenthood Guide

[@reginalemoine5809]

One of the fastest ways to increase emotional control is to have your Sim knit while winding down with classical music. Knitting raises it on its own, but the music takes it next level. Bonus: children will gain emotional control, knitting skill, and motor skill all at once while knitting. Of course, the Nifty Knitting pack is required for this. They can also simultaneously play an instrument with emotion while winding down with classical. Also, when parents are going to encourage behaviors, if you pause the game, you can queue up a number of encourage interactions rather than just one, which raises the value much faster. If the child stops and restarts the action (like playing with the doctor set or working on a school project) you can queue up multiple encourage actions for each time the child restarts. Finally, children can also “play with emotion” using toys from the toybox.

[@sarahshroom]

oh wow! i always play with character values and knitting and had no idea these two crossed with each other in such a helpful way. thank you!!

[@Bansheefluch]

Wow, thanks. I'm playing right now in a household where the mother is knitting and the child doesn't have emotional control yet. Thank you, thank you, this is very fitting right now.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much for sharing the additional tips and tricks Regina :)

[@pollyc.1957]

Emotional control actually offers its best perk in Jungle Adventures...while you're travelling through the jungle with an emotionally controlled Sim, you are far less likely to be attacked by dangerous and poisonous insects! It's actually my favorite perk, because I love to explore the temples with it!

[@lininacrowne1941]

Woah how do you know?

[@Cocoleavemealone]

🤩 wow that’s some solid advice. Can’t wait to try it!

[@catherinefayrefox420]

I almost always max out the Manners and Responsibility, but never manage to get the other three high. Thanks for these tips!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

You're super welcome! Thank you for the kind comment Catherine!

[@nicolou4334]

There is actually pretty easy way to increase conflict resolution for teens. Make them hang out with Renegades if you have Get Together pack. Renegades are an infamous club, so they usually will have bad relationship with some other sims. Then you just choose to "help to fix bad relationship" and you will have it maxed quite quickly!

[@ShinyDiam0ndLia]

Thanks I'm gonna try this out!

[@habibahmift]

You can also increase your sim's emotional control by talking to the mirror when they are sad, angry, or embarrassed. Overall, great tips!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much for the extra tip Habibah! :)

[@Melindrea]

You missed one small action: children (and I think toddlers) can play with toys "with emotion" too =)

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Ooh! Good pickup! Thank you for sharing that tip Marie :)

[@inbach]

** If you have the seasons expension - appeasing gnomes on harvestfest will also raise a sim's empathy value.

[@AzureBlu10]

This video came at the perfect time for me as I am just about ready to start playing families. Thanks Petey!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Hooray! You're super welcome Azure I'm glad it was helpful!

[@jonathanbaker4361]

little late for me but not over the hill yet. A child just turned teen, a toddler turned child, and mom just dropped twins. All but the eldest are vampires...

[@zephyr_mist37]

In my experience the fastest way I’ve found to increase conflict resolution is take your child and parent out somewhere and have the child go up to strangers and do friendly introduction -> a mean social (I used yell at or insult) -> apologize Then you can use the parent to encourage apologizing You can also use the parent to discipline for being mean to balance out the empathy loss from the mean social I’ve had trouble with the method of having a household sim build up bad relationships and then have the child use “help fix bad relationship” because sometimes it doesn’t show up and it has a cool down

[@SundiMyint]

This is awesome, thanks! Would be very curious about the opposite version too, how to lower all the values and how that affects them as adults.

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

Neat Sims get the Good Manners trait almost automatically because they will autonomously clean the dishes after every meal. Rarely do I have a Neat Sim that doesn't age up with that trait. I love using the doctor playset, especially if that Sim becomes a doctor later in life and gets the special moodlet. It's cool.

[@lillilster1014]

Yeah. I don’t have get to work, but I find that that’s a nice detail in the game.

[@inzagirukia1894]

Best guide so far.. Alot other guide just simply include a cheat and I don't see why would a cheater searching for a video to do so.. Keep it up. Thanks.

[@thornedreadlow9376]

DUDE! You SERIOUSLY make the BEST& MOST HELPFUL F-ing Sims 4 videos ever!!! THANK you AGAIN! hahaha I blame YOU for @ least 50% of my full on return to "simming"!

[@lillilster1014]

You can also start by teaching your toddlers to say sorry and please and thank you, which you did mention, but this really largely boosted my child Sim’s manners and conflict resolution when she aged up!

[@bradboney1374]

I’ve been waiting for this since the days when you had fewer than 1k subs. One of my favorite packs. I struggle with values and this is a huge help. Thanks!

[@BetaTestsLife]

Same!!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Brad! :) I'm so glad some content you'd been holding out for landed and that it was helpful! Nice to hear from you!

[@az25blue]

I love the character values! The polite introduction alone is so helpful. I also like being able to calm another sim's emotions.

[@katarinasmith8400]

The video was really great! You explained it so well I was at no point confused!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Hooray! I'm so glad it was helpful Katarina :). Hope you're well!

[@Neurofen]

Awesome content, dude! :) Your guides are so useful. I was playing every sims game since sims 4, were i took a break. I recently started to play with a friend with the S4MP mod and i was blown away how much depth sims 4 got over the years. So much stuff to do that you can't see the from the get go.

[@ERYN__]

Working on the Super Parent one in a 100 baby. Have another son working on maxing culinary career and making LOTS of garden salads, having "good kid" pack them all into sack lunches, responsibility is off the chart.

[@_new_french_touch_]

Yoga is great for emotional control and for kids it boosts mental and motor simultaneously!

[@saipirunc.6261]

I love your vids. Can we have how to max out the negative ones? I’ve never accomplish it. Lol Thanks.

[@annagirard4940]

Yes! I’ve seen Carl’s guides do it but I like Pete a little better because he just gives straight facts. I want to see a negative trait test!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much Saipirun :) I will definitely do the equivalent guide but with negative values/traits in the future!

[@annagirard4940]

@@PeteyPlaysIt I think it would be so fun to try and get all of the bad traits lol

[@FuzzballSupreme]

Could you please make a guide on how to make a functioning orphanage? You're one of the few people I trust to do it right.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

I've added this to my list! Great suggestion! Off the top of my head I'm not sure how it would exactly work so it'll involve a lot of play testing and I can't guarantee it's something i'll be able to pull off, but I love the idea and i'll look into it in the future :)

[@FuzzballSupreme]

@@PeteyPlaysIt Thank you!

[@saranalen2741]

Great video as always!! Easily one of my absolute favorite simming channels ❤️

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Awe shucks thank you so much Sara! Appreciate the kind comment!

[@cynsue1618]

Again, a well thought out and helpful video!!! I’ve been playing the Sims for years and didn’t realize that you can max out all of them I thought you had to always choose.

[@kolli7150]

Oh no. Definitely not. I have had my first child reaching all values a couple of days ago. Conflict resolution always was hardest to achieve and prevented me from having all 5 values for ages....

[@chasezly]

iirc, with chance cards, the higher a sim’s parenting level, you can actually see how a choice will effect a certain character value.

[@Cynthnote]

I don't know if anyone already said this, but a bonus tip is to have the child/teen wash all the dishes after everyone, so just cancel the other sims' actions when they're about to go and wash their own dishes. Then put the plates into the other sims' inventory and place down one plate at a time for the kid to wash. This is because the kid will just go and collect all the plates and wash them all at once otherwise, which will only count as one action - I THINK. I could be wrong. So please let me know if the game counts each plate, even if they wash them all at once.

[@crabfish92]

EA should sponsor you, seriously. New sub

[@abney18]

You read my mind! I was just looking for something like this yesterday 😁

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Hooray! Haha i'm glad it helped :). Good timing!

[@mirandabriceno1122]

Tysm!!! This was so helpful

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

Thank you! This video was really helpful. So glad I found your channel. Newer subscriber here.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you so much for the kind comment and the support Mraz!

[@xxlian_]

Dude you deserve more subs than any other so called youtuber

[@simssaves4980]

It's too bad there aren't more things you can do in game to lower the character values! I might be here for the chaos lol

[@lininacrowne1941]

Petey just posted a video about how to lower character values!

[@yo-mumma91]

Good on you mate just got up in Australia

[@lininacrowne1941]

Petey have you done videos about the child aspirations and the resulting traits? I would enjoy that

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Ooh this is great Linina! I feel like it might be a little short if it was just on that, but perhaps I could work that into a guide of a slightly bigger theme. Thank you so much for the hot tip I really appreciate it :)

[@villafruitfly9351]

Needed this! Thank you again for being such a shining star 🌟

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you for the kind words Hailey! :D

[@Darth_Rhidian]

Omg I really needed this video

[@ShadoeLandman]

Usually I get the traits way up when they are children and the teens ruin them with a couple of actions and I can't build them back up fast enough.

[@hustlinhitch]

My favourite way is to max out the Parenting skill and use the chance cards. However you can be sucker-punched by these cards as they take away values as well and a chance card just as your sim is about to blow out the candles can ruin a life's work.

[@robertwilber3701]

Pete thanks for your insight

[@neera1181]

Thanks, this video was extremely helpful!! 🤗🤗

[@theeverythingkid]

I found this channel on my recommendation so I subscribed because it was so helpful

[@carinamurillo2150]

I'll be coming back to this video after my not so berry heir has kids, thank youuu 😍

[@adamjames4509]

Please do the opposite now so we know the best ways to create problematic sims!

[@marden3374]

I never knew this lol!! Thanks again Peter

[@EM-cz1qf]

I was just thinking aboit this and I saw it!! thanks again LOL

[@lisacsofia3091]

I searched for something like this for so long 😍👀

[@kolli7150]

Hi fellow simmers - for me, gaining conflict resolution is always the biggest challenge. Will you leave in the comments below your tips and tricks? Thank you a lot! Every suggestion is much appreciated! 🤩

[@feliciasantiago4345]

Cool thanks for sharing.

[@cedrigo]

Good tutorial, thank you!

[@BetaTestsLife]

I'm EARrLY !! Btw I like your channel

[@sqara748]

I love your content

[@taguro1006]

Pete any pro tips for console players? I got it for free in the ps5 playing it in the ps4 not sure if it could play all packs thoo

[@lathyrusloon]

I'm also on ps5, and I have almost every pack. they all work but the last patch has made it so my game crashes in just about every loading screen. so be sure to save before going Anywhere.

[@taguro1006]

@@lathyrusloon oh nooo hope u resolve it thanks m8

[@lathyrusloon]

@@taguro1006 thanks and np, happy siming!

[@elizabethh4855]

I was looking for a guide to this because I figured that it's nearly impossible to get all the traits without cheats. And unfortunately there are pop ups when the kids and teens ask adults for advice or when they go to school where you're forced to make choices that lower certain traits.

[@OlgaGax]

You can avoid the chance cards by canceling the ask advice interactions and not answering the phone while your kid is at school. I do this once my childs character values are maxed out

[@elizabethh4855]

@@OlgaGax Thanks I'll try this ^^

[@ohjena17]

What is your gallery ID? I can't seem to find it anywhere! I really love your builds. I want that new spa !! Lol Edit: I found it lol

[@delanienering1420]

I want to see one about the negative values

[@nicfalco8286]

Great work!!! Are you planning on making the opposite of this video? I’ve never played with a sim who has the anti character values so I don’t even know the traits or the interactions.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thanks so much Nic! It's on my list so i'll definitely make the opposite video in a few weeks time or so :).

[@FM-iw6uc]

question Petey, can a sim go from bad rep to good rep? i got this curse and went way up on the bad till I removed it. love the vids, thanks!

[@Luvs.1xzz]

if you cheat the stuff can u still get the traits??

[@CheddarCheese.]

I can't set the table for some reason, I have parenthood and I'm attempting this using a dining table.

[@jessice293]

I always struggle maintaining my sims emotional control

[@Potatoinatree]

My toddler trying to raise emotional control😛

[@kitaboo206]

I feel like its already too easy to increase character value. I want to get them all red sometimes and its so much more difficult to do.

[@dgameryoutube5045]

Plz tell me kids getting prayed isn't the only way to get the responsibility trait and the other traits if this was real then let's just say I wouldn't have any of this I didn't have reaffirming parents, grandparents, schools, teachers, or really friends but I'm responsible, have emotional control most of the time and have manners

[@mountains7694]

Another fast way to raise emotional control is to have your sim do yoga.

[@marmars5580]

if i was a sim my emotional control would be -1028292

[@Ramidra]

My teen sim is aging up in few days and i cant find anything for raising conflict resolution….

[@myraid5994]

have the parent teach them to say sorry like 10 times in a row

[@tugbatok9008]

can't all sad seem blog about feelings?

[@PixelSlayer247]

Only in The Sims is sending your children to the homes of crime lords and vampires to learn conflict resolution a good idea.

[@tugbatok9008]

ıt's like school doesn't contribute to the kids at all...oh wait

[@Katie-ws7xp]

Please do the opposite