I'm not sure if others find the childhood aspirations especially difficult, but I do. They would be easier to ignore (especially since raising grades is so difficult now!) but since I play Legacy Challenges, I want to try to finish these. Besides, the bonus traits are amazing, so there you have it.
My problem is that the Social Butterfly aspiration doesn't appear to be registering my sim kids' friends. When they need to have five child friends and three adult friends, the game isn't registering the friends they already have.
So I figured that this was by design and that they needed to squeeze in five more friends before they aged up. That would be tough, but do-able. I had my sim kid make a new friend, and that didn't register, either.
Has anybody else had this problem or is there a trick to this aspiration?