I had an event just now where several of my villagers fell sick - lots of sneezing all over the place. I've had that particular event happen before, so I didn't really bother too much. In fact, I deliberately made that particular choice to give my healers some practice so they could get their skill levels up. It took a minute or two, but eventually all my doctors clustered round in a group "healing someone" like they'd done the first time.

Then I noticed the kids. They were all rushing off to the centre of the village. I thought they were just playing as usual, but they all stood still, spaced evenly apart. I selected one and it said something about "learning lessons". I selected another one nearby and it said the same thing. ALL my kids were standing by the research hut being taught!!! Unfortunately, I had to quit the game then because I'd left myself logged into my Instant Messager and heard it chime to tell me one of my friends was online so I didn't see who was teaching them.

Has anyone else come across this?

if you drop an adult on achild you will either get story time, or lessons

both add points in parenting

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.

I'm glad you guys are getting to see that! I spent so long getting that behavior to work, I almost got in trouble; (because I was delaying the implementation of so many other necessary behaviors.) But I think it was worth it. I actually have yet to see it in one of my games, but I saw some really cool pictures of it in the "post your own pictures" thread, and of course I've tested it about a million times, but I still can't wait to see it work in a real game.
..."Ok kids, today's lesson is *FISH* "

Yes, I have a village that did the same yesterday. It was extremely amusing. I clicked on the nearest adult who happened to be a master farmer and she was teaching the children. I was so proud of them!!!

we LOVE you for that Walt! it is my completely favorite action of the whole game!

I like the way the teachers will grab any item they fancy from the science hut to show to the kids. I can understand a lesson about fish, but I've seen them giving lessons on a clump of dried grass and a basket of laundry before now. There can't be much to learn about there.

i'd love to see them with the collectables!

wait wait wait

i just realized...they are teaching the kids LAUNDRY? no no, that is bad

they do enough of it without having classes

I have had more than one lesson on vegetables.