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.