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The Sims 4is the very definition of a game with open-ended gameplay. As a player, you can create almost any virtual life you can imagine here. The game also leans on the aspect of life stages quite heavily, presenting you with different challenges as you navigate aging and growing.
One of the most fun aspects of the game is nurturing and guiding toddlers through various activities, teaching essential skills that shape their future in quite a few ways. A small and defenseless toddler will need your help to take care of even the most basic of their needs, like feeding and, yes, going potty. You had best prepare accordingly.
What Is The Potty Skill?
The Potty skill isone of the five available skillstoddlers can learn in the game. This skill represents adevelopmental milestone, albeit a simple one.
Going Potty isdirectly related to a toddler’s bladder motive.
While they can use diapers, Potty can help keep themcleaner and happier, so it is definitely an important skill for toddlers to learn.
How To Gain And Improve The Potty Skill
There isonly one way to learn and improvethe Potty skill. Toddlers will have touse a Potty Chairevery time they need to go potty. There are a few things you can do to make the process go just a little faster, though:
Most toddlers will need helpgoing potty for the first time to actually learn the skill, and they willnot be able to use the potty chair without helpuntil they reach level two.
Benefits Of Teaching The Potty Skill
There arenot that many benefitsto learning and developing the Potty skill. This skill hasno equivalent childhood skill, so it does not necessarily grant any special benefits other thanletting the toddler go potty alone.
However, you willstill need to achieve all three levels of the Potty skillif you want to unlock the special traits for successful development in toddlerhood and opt into the following lifelong benefits:
Traits That Help With Potty
Traits are really important for Sims, asthey dictate their personalitiesand sometimes even their hobbies. When it comes to toddlers, traits can alsodirectly affect the way they learn skills.
While no traits specifically help with the Potty skill,Independent toddlers need less help learningall skills in general. This is the only trait in the game thatlets a toddler go potty alonewithout necessarily being taught.
Even when having the Independent trait, the Sim willneed to gain Potty experience and level upthe skill.
