Many ideas:

The 'parenting' skill seems to lean toward the 'act' that leads to being a parent. Once my villagers 'learn' that skill, if their skill preference is 'parenting', they go at it like rabbits non stop. You can have them 'teach' and read stories, but that's something you have to 'make them' do - and as all parents know, the 'act' that made you a parent isn't anything related to parent-ing. So I'd like to see that 'skill' expanded and not have my villagers mating like rabbits 24/7 when I've selected parenting as their preferred skill.

I also think the village should 'expand' more. Instead of seeing the 'there's no housing to support that' pop up everytime I purposely 'embrace' two villagers (so their skills will increase as they work towards becoming a village elder), they would build more huts. Which would increase opportunities to improve building skills after the inital buildings are done.

It's a great game and there's so many 'directions' it could go - there are just so many things they could gain/learn/be skilled in. It would be nice to have more options of things to do after you've finished the puzzles.

I have a village from VV1 still going strong - and I still play though it's mainly about ensuring they aren't all dead at this point.

Can't WAIT for VV3 and beyond! You've got a winner here, LDW - thanks and keep up the great work!