The Story

Your Sim is a young adult who never really leaves her house and is looking to have a nice evening at the local tavern. She has a few drinks in her system and at some point, ends up in bed with a random guy.

The next morning, the guy has left without a trace. The day after that, your Sim starts feeling sick. She soon realizes she's pregnant, broke and alone.

Rules and Requirements:

Beforehand, you may use money cheats to buy whichever house you like and modify it however you want. Once you start the challenge, you must decrease your funds to 1500 Simoleons.

Your Sim will be limited to making money at home until their child is a teen.

Your Sim must have a high relationship with their child until they're a Young Adult.

Your Sim cannot have romantic relationships until the child has aged to Young Adult (thus your Sim cannot have anymore children until then).

To make this more challenging, if you own Generations, have your Sim do the daycare profession until their child ages up to teen. The daycare profession is what inspired this challenge in the first place!

You Lose If:

-The social worker takes the child

-The repo man pays a visit

-The child does not maintain an A in school

-Your Sim doesn't achieve her lifetime wish by the time she ages to Elder.

Points System

+50 points for a good pregnancy

-10 points for every trait you can't choose for the child (if you have a bad pregnancy or you don't teach your toddler certain skills, the game picks their traits)

+10 points every time the child is on the honor roll

+30 points for every promotion you get

+10 points for every skill learned by the child as they grow up (they don't have to be maxed out, just learned)

+10 points for every friend the child makes

+10 points for every family outing (i.e. going to movies, eating out, touring places, making greeting cards, anything you can do with multiple Sims) This starts at the teen life stage

+50 points for every skill your Sim or their child maxes out

+50 points if your Sim's teen has a successful part time job

+100 points if you achieve your Sim's Lifetime Wish


For Generations Players:

+30 points for every parent that pays you extra for taking care of their child

-20 for every dissatisfied parent


If you have University Life, give yourself +100 points if your Sim's child graduates university and another +50 if they get a job through a social group



Trait Specific Challenges:


-Geniuses must master logic by young adulthood

-Artists must master painting by adulthood

-Athletes must master athletic skill by adulthood

-Handy Sims must master handiness by adulthood

-Natural Cooks must master cooking by young adulthood

-Green thumbs must master gardening by adulthood


An extra challenge is to put your sim in the most expensive house (using freerealestate cheat), see how long it takes before you have to start selling furniture to pay the bills



I decided to come back to this after realizing that not everyone owns Generations so why limit the challenge for people when taking care of kids is just as difficult in base game? I may keep making edits as I buy more expansions, it's so fun to come back to TS3 after so long!

Giving this post a big ol Bump!

Hi so I know you said we have to start out with 1500 simoleons but can I build them a house and put whatever i want in it and then subtract the money to 1500 or do I have to start on an empty lot?

Oh, you can modify the house if you want, or you can use freerealestate to get whatever house you want, but once you start the challenge you must decrease your funds to 1500 simoleons.

Bumping because I made a bunch of edits

Me encanta porque gracias a estos comentarios salgo de las dudas

Hello! I'm doing this challenge right now, and I'm wondering if there is an end to collecting points in this challenge? For example, when your child grows up? Or when your Sim becomes an Elder, or dies? Or can you just keep on collecting points?

When your Sim's child reaches young adult and moves out of the house! Basically when they leave the nest

Thank you! Another question, are lifetime rewards allowed? And what is the recommended lifespan?

I didn't even think about lifetime rewards! I would say when the child becomes a Young Adult you can purchase them. The recommended lifespan is normal or long

Thank you! And what would you consider a high relationship with your child? Friend, good friend, best friend?

So, I finished this challenge! I'm not quite sure if I actually won, since my kid has become a young adult but my Sim hasn't achieved her lifetime wish yet. I didn't use any lifetime rewards, though, and I played with a normal lifespan. Still, my score:

50 points for a good pregnancy
5 tips from a parent, so 150 points
5 promotions, so 150 points
26 skills learned by the kid, so 260 points
29 friends of the kid, so 290 points
5 days on the honor roll, so 50 points
50 points for a successful parttime job
50 points for a getting a job through a social group
100 points for graduating university

So that's a total of 1150 points.

Thank you for making this challenge! It's the first one I finished Thanks!

Looks like you had a good run! The win requirement is that your sim has to achieve her lifetime wish before the child is a young adult, so sadly that's a loss. Thank you for trying my challenge!

High relationship would be good friend or higher