i usually see they grey bowl

I have seen the kids looking on to the researchers and I have seen them listening to stories.
But I have yet to see any of them being taught anything.
That will just tickle me pink.
How did you get them to do this????
I have to look on these posts because I have found out some astoninshing things about my little villagers that are new.
That is exciting to me.

Your adult villager must be at least an adept parent to be able to teach. If you drop an ordinary villager onto a kid he'll start telling one or two kids a story, instead of teaching them. Both earn parenting skills for the adult, though.

I've been meaning to ask for a while: What do you figure the kids say when they go to listen to a story and the adult telling the story fails (shaking head at the end!? Something like:

"Sheesh, you stopped me playing tag for this!!"

or

"What kind of adult can't even tell a simple story?"

lol

The adult probably fails because the kids are making too much noise and not listening to the story. Or maybe they all shout out, "Heard it!"

i saw one of mine teaching couconuts and i cant even get those yet lol

I thought someone said that they could get the kids to actually learn something while being taught. I've had no success with it yet though.

>>but again the children gain nothing, its like the school in VV1, just a place for the kids to gather. <<

School does do something, it gives them skills. I've seen it in VV1, I had a bunch of kids. They had little bars, i mean tiny ones, a little blue bump. I spent 15 minutes clicking the school drum once a minute. When I was done, almost half of them had reached trainee status. One girl was a scientist, almost adept. She became adept in 2 hrs. Which never happened before.

Teaching in VV2 gives them skills too. Very little but do it continually and you will get smarter kids.

I have to add to the love, Walt! I adore the teaching aspect. It's just too cute to see all the kids running and sitting to listen. And that the teacher will grab a variety of stuff just makes it better. Yes, even laundry! 'Cause really, you don't want to mix those colors and whites. I did have one elderly teacher though, who had a huge group of kids gathered but she took so long to get to the hut that by the time she made it back to class, they were all gone! It was kind of hilarious watching them just kind of wander away one by one, with me yelling at the screen, "No, wait! She's coming, she's coming!". Heh. I am perhaps, too attached.

Oh, and about the kids sitting down to listen to teaching or story time, I've had really little kids appear to sitting on bigger kids' laps. Don't know if it's an accidental appearance or on purpose, but it is the cutest thing ever.

The teaching action is great -- but it doesn't seem to be increasing my Adept Parent's skill at parenting (I'm trying to get her to Elder and this is her third skill.) She's taught and taught and taught I've received the message that she is "improved at parenting" a zillion times but her little blue line won't budge!

Is it just me?