For teaching, I really like using a mum over the age of 50 and/or an Elder. I think it's a pity that the lessions don't count on the learning bar.

I wish the children's lessons were NOT in the same place as the fishing traffic and the nursing moms.

Once my village has reached its maximum population (90 or more) I don't find any difficulty in creating master parents, especially women. Once a (female) villager reaches master in her first skill, she is usually over 18 and I'll switch her to parenting. I'll drop her on a boy a few times until she becomes a trainee parent. The pop-up maximum population warning is a nuisance, but can be suffered. She'll then run around on her own looking to kiss some poor guy and drag him to the loveshack. With plenty of rests for enjoying the pond and cooling her feet, naturally. After a day or so she will have become a master, and I can switch her to her third skill so she can become an Elder. The men aren't so lucky. I'll normally only create one or two male parents at a time, or nobody would get any work done.

RE:I wish the children's lessons were NOT in the same place as the fishing traffic and the nursing moms.

Yes I agree totally. I have mentioned before in another thread about suggestions for VV3 that we need the school building as well as a teacher. We could choose who we want to be the teacher. That would be another job like farmer, researcher, etc. Then have the kids go in to the school and stay in there for several min with the teacher. That gets them out of the traffic and away from the nursing mothers. The building could be open on one side like the hospital so that we could watch the action or drop the teacher again to make them teach longer.
I have found that by dropping the adept parents on the kids many times in succession (once it says "this villager has improved in parenting") that the parenting bar definitely moves up. However I use that method in combination with the other one of dropping the man on the woman over and over or vice versa. The two methods together gets that master parent quicker. But still it takes awhile. I have to take rest periods because my mouse hand gets tired.

Good idea Arnie. I use your method all of the time. It works well for the women. Once the village reaches maximum poulation it's ok to use it on the men as well. But not before. It depends on where you are in the game. At the latter ofcourse is best.

They do spend an awful lot of time doing laundry, but ya gotta learn how somewhere!LOL! I just love it when I get a kid that hates laundry, Wish they gave lessons on running!

Thanks, Walt, that's a great feature of the game. I love the way they line up for lessons.

Ive been checking new kids with no skills before having Esteemed Elder teach them. Some get build and others get research, some get nothing, im not sure about farming yet. Laundry, I just realized, gets tech pts., usually i stop them and set them to another task but finally waited and watched. It makes more sense to stop them and set back at the table to save the time of walking to and from the water though. I'm testing right now to see how many pts but needed info on something first. Mouzzee

Well, we can always hope that they're teaching them to do it more *efficiently*! That way they'll do it less.