I like the idea of being able to select which kind of "parenting" a villiager does when it comes to either breeding or teaching. I cannot tell you how many times I would set a villiager to teach and before they are done, their status goes to "embracing". Another suggestion I have is to have these parents finish the task they are doing before "embracing" or "waiting for someone"? I had a villiager getting firewood once and right as he bent down to put it on the fire, he stood back up in a "waiting for someone" mode so I had to have someone else do it.
I dont know if someone else has these problems or if its just me, but I would like to see them corrected. I will try to train, (most of the time its a male villiager), them in a certian area (farming, building..ect) and he will keep stopping to "wait for someone" so i pick him up and put him back on the task and take the villiager that is in the "embracing" mode and put her somewhere else. She will be busy, but the guy keeps going into the "waiting for someone" mode. Hes not sick so I imagine he is just hopeing to increase his parenting skills. I would like to see that done away with because they are impossible to teach things to and the only time they work is when my parents are nursing.
Also, I have had a run in a few times with my entire villiage deciding they all want to research, and enjoy the pond, and nobody wants to farm to collect food, thus causing the entire villiage to starve and die. I will put ones on farming in the detail screen and take them over to fish, harvest crops and/or coconuts, but once they put the food in the bin, its back off to the research table, and i have to keep picking them up to make them farm again. I had this problem with my 2nd VV2 villiage, and with my daughters villiage, (mine died and I had to start over, and now her population is 1 since everyone else starved to death) I set the mode to easy and 1/2 time for hers and they still would not farm!
The dr thing is another good idea to put them on a table to gain skill. I will take a master farmer and make him a dr and then he does not want to farm anymore and is always in the pond or wandering around. Would like to see that changed as well.
the other idea i had was instead of having the mothers nurse for 2 yrs, why not have her preg, then nurse for 1yr after, but while she is preg, she can still work, and she is gaining skill in whatever work she is doing,(if she is a builder, might have to move her to research since she is preg) then gaining skill in parenting once she is nursing.
Parent interaction with their children would be a cute idea. Taking a dad over to his child and he either teaches or plays a game would be fun. then once a parent becomes adept, they can teach all the children or play a game with all the kids.