Must-Have Teen Mods for The Sims 2
- BellaDovah
- Sep 22, 2025
- 7 min read
Here's all my favorite mods to enhance gameplay in the teenage life stage for The Sims 2.
This mod was originally by smonaff, updated again by smonaff here, edited by Meduza here and here, and then built on further by me. With this mod, female sims from teenagers onwards will experience periods. On a random day in their teenhood, they will get their very first period and if you wish, get a memory of this happening. When a sim is on their period, their hygiene and comfort need will suffer more than usual, and they will experience PMS symptoms; cramps, munchies, and gas. They will also need to change their hygiene product, a tampon by default, every 4 hours which simply pushes them to use the toilet regardless of their bladder need. With my version, periods occur once every 7 days instead of every 4 days and last a full 24 hours. I've also significantly reduced how quickly the needs decay during their period, particularly hygiene, as it was really brutal originally.
This mod by Pick N Mix makes it so sims need a driving licence to be able to drive a car. You can make it so all current adults already have a licence, or just give one to whoever you want at any time, but this adds a great new thing to do in the teenage years - sims can study for their driving theory exam and take driving lessons either with adults that have a licence such as their parents or with a hired instructor. Once they’ve gotten enough practice they can take their test and hopefully pass so that they can use a car however they like from that point on. Otherwise, they’ll have to keep practicing and take another test! I’ve also made some addons for this great mod, from making it a bit easier, quicker, and more convenient overall to compatibility patches with other mods.
Prom + After School Activity + Prom Plugins: Limo + Bring Friend Home from Prom + my tuning & patches
The Prom + After School Activity mod by piqiwi adds afterschool activities for kids & teens and proms for teens. On a random school day during their teenhood, sims will have a prom. They can ask someone to prom, get memories and earn prizes. They’ll return from school at 10pm on Prom Day in their formal outfit and, with the prom plugins mod, will bring their date home with them and if they had a good prom, return in a limo! As for the afterschool activities, after a school day, there is a chance they will stay longer for an after school activity or get detention and therefore come home a bit later. During these activities, they will build their needs, interests and hobby enthusiasm. There are 12 different activities that get randomly selected between besides detention, and if they have the study group discussion, they will complete their homework there and not bring it home. I’ve also made some addons for this - I’ve revamped the selection of after school activities so now every interest can be built by at least one club, and each hobby can be built in one club. I've also tweaked the amount interests and hobby enthusiasm are changed, and I’ve tweaked the motives; detention will now decrease fun, and I've removed many of the need buffs from the other clubs so now only social will be maxed, and fun will be increased. As well as this, with my addon for the prom plugins, sims will return with slightly more energy giving them a bit more opportunity to actually spend time with their date. I’ve also made a compatibility patch for the School Bus Bring Friend Dialog mod and either this mod or the Parenthood mod.
With this mod by piqiwi, there is a chance a popup will appear while your children and teenagers are in school asking you (or their parents) for advice. This could be about them feeling upset because they weren’t invited to a party, or them being in trouble for hacking the school computers, and much more. Depending how you answer, they will build character values in Manners, Responsibility, Conflict Resolution, Empathy and Emotional Control. Once your teenager grows up into a young adult or adult, they will earn a character value trait depending on which category scored highest and whether they grew up well or poorly, and they’ll get a memory of which character trait they got. By default, this will change their personality, but with my addon I have this disabled because I like to do this manually. For example, if a sim grows up as responsible, I’ll increase their neatness by 1 and decrease their playfulness by 1. I also slightly increased the chance of getting a parenthood prompt to 40% instead of 30%, and slightly reduced the chance of taking advice from 88% to 85%.
Teen Graduation Yearbook (also includes Growing Up Wants Panel & "Go To College" Want Satisfied Before Growing Up)
With this mod by Beestew’s, sims will receive a yearbook in their inventory when they grow up to adult or young adult. These year books will actually look different for different sims and have custom functionality. The yearbook is open, and a picture of the sim will be on one side, and on the other side will be up to 3 pictures of their closest fellow teenagers. Sims can use the book to reminisce and depending on whether they grew up well or badly, their reactions will be different. Other sims such as family members can also join in the reminiscing! For compatibility reasons - this mod can optionally entirely include two other mods I’d also recommend - Nopke's Growing Up Wants Panel which rewards extra want slots and locks on aging up well at any lifestage instead of during university exclusively, and Nopke’s Go To College Want Satisfied before growing up so that if your teen sim had the want to go to college when they aged up to young adult, they will definitely grow up well because that want will now be satisfied before the age-up aspiration is calculated.
With this mod by Meduza, there is a chance kids and teens will bring home a Sims 4 style school project instead of their regular homework. Children can bring a castle, solar system or volcano whereas teens can bring a bridge, electricity or rocket. The projects take longer to complete than regular homework but build skills, hobby enthusiasm and badges. For example, the Bridge project gains mechanical skill and tinkering enthusiasm, the Electricity project gains mechanical skill, robotery badge and tinkering enthusiasm, and the Rocket project gains logic skill, toy making badge and science enthusiasm. There’s also traits support! This adds some great variety and a way to shape your young sim’s skills and hobbies.
University jobs enabled for teens (included and tweaked in my Job Salary Rebalance)
This mod by Simsfreq allows your sims to get a part time job in the Artist, Natural Science, Paranormal, and Show Business careers which just didn’t exist before. This mod is fully included and tweaked to fit in my Job Salary Rebalance mod which overhauls the pay for every level of every career so that it’s proportionately based on the requirements needed for promotion and to advance to the top of the career. So, if you already have that or are interested in it, make sure you grab my version instead.
This mod by Hypersaline allows teens with failing grades to get and keep a few careers which realistically wouldn’t care: Criminal, Slacker, Culinary, Gamer, and because the lower levels are in construction, Architecture, whilst still being barred from most career tracks.
This mod by Hypersaline enables the college research interaction for teenagers so they can slowly build their school grade by studying. It also has traits support so geniuses will gain grade progress faster for example.
This mod by Squinge adds a new influence interaction so sims can influence other sims to do their homework for them, just like young adults can with college assignments.
This mod by DreadPirate simply allows teenage sims to give noogies to their younger child siblings!
This mod by Doc Doofus retains the love status when a teenager grows up to a young adult or adult but their love interest is still a teenager. They can’t interact romantically without other mods but the feelings are still there, and therefore they can more reliably wait for their partner to also grow up.
This mod by gdayars allows teenagers to go on vacation by themselves without any adults present and also be allowed to check into campgrounds and use tents.
This mod by DarkPhoenixxx simply allows teenagers to use the massage table so they can get a massage whilst on holiday or otherwise.
This mod by Black Spirit allows teenagers to get plastic surgery with the Show Business career reward object.
This mod by Gummi reduces the hygiene threshold in which zits can appear - originally it was below 75% hygiene but with this mod there’s only a chance of zits appearing below 50% hygiene.
This mod by Cyjon removes the annoying popup messages reminding you about University. I and many others send teens to university on their last day of teenhood so they get to experience the full lifestage, so its very annoying to be nagged about college so many times before then.
This mod by Pick N Mix allows your college-bound teenagers to have a birthday party! Now, when a teenager blows out the candles you will be asked whether to send them to college, so instead of aging up at that point they will go to college if you select yes, otherwise they can age up as normal.
Repeatable Memories: Snuck Out & Got Caught Sneaking Out
This mod by me makes several memories repeatable. Most notably for teenagers, the memories of sneaking out and got caught sneaking out, so they’ll get a memory each time they do this instead of only the first time.
This mod simcaistk simply improves the icon for the very first kiss memory so that it is unique in the same style as the very first woohoo memory, with the yellow star behind it, instead of looking like all the other kiss memories, so now it will stand out in the memory panel.
Lenna's Mini Fixes: Ran Away Memories Fix
This mod by Lenna contains lots of really great fixes, but I want to draw your attention to the Runaway Memories one. In an unmodded game, when a teen runs away from home and comes back, they get 4 different memories! This has been fixed so now the teen doesn't receive the 3rd person memories which are reserved for their parents. You can choose to make these memories repeatable too which I think makes most sense.
This mod by Cyjon makes it so Runaway teens no longer get their skills randomized. Instead, they slowly build skills during the time away from the house.