Regular adults tell the children stories and it does build parenting skills for the adult but nothing for the kids, and somone who is more then adept at parenting allready, you can Teach the children, then the parent gains parenting skills, but again the children gain nothing, its like the school in VV1, just a place for the kids to gather. The difference between teaching and telling a story is the ammount of parenting skills the villager allready has, and i found that when they *teach* all of the kids come, when their *telling a story* only a few show up, most of the time ive seen its the kids withing view of the screen. and the ones out of the screen area at the time, dont come.