This is a frog bug. I just noticed this today, and it doesn't seem to be happening with my other tribe. The frogs are jumping next to the love shack, as well as the stream. I'm using Windows 7 and the game is in windowed mode.

Certainly unique! But they aren't doing any harm, are they? Is the puzzle showing as solved?

The frogs are there for a reason. You should keep an eye on the kids.

I'm intrigued...

I don't believe that it is a glitch, and I don't believe that the teachers have as much to do with what the children learn as their parents do. I have had more than 50 Scholars in my village. With only one or two exceptions, their highest (usually maxed) skill has been either research or healing. If the scholars influenced what the children learn, I would expect to see a village full of apprentice scientists or healers. Instead, I almost always have apprentice builders. The only other skill that has popped up (only once or twice so far) has been farming. I have from the beginning started my villagers to master building, followed by parenting, then farming. Since the villagers on parenting seem to prefer younger, more skilled partners, they usually spend their time chasing my builders and farmers.

So, if the original posters parents were more farmers than not, it would not matter what the teachers were mastered in.

The one thing I have noticed is that my villagers never seem to choose parenting to learn. Not sure if that is intentional to allow the player more control over the parenting process or not.

I haven't seen the frogs by the Love Shack, can't wait until I do!! The only bug I can report is that my kids don't play in puddles. It says they are but they just freeze instead of running to the puddles.

It's not exactly a game-crashing bug, but sometimes my adult villagers will act Confused in the midst of their daily activities. When I clicked on one of them, the message read "Not enough room in the cooking pot."

They're saying "pit" not "pot" in that situation. The reason that they are doing that is because the fruit cookers allow a maximum of 4 farmers to cook fruit simultaneously. If you try to get any more than that, they will be confused and the player communication area will briefly display the message about the cooking pit. It does get a bit tricky when you have a lot of farmers who want to harvest and cook fruit. Each farmer will 'reserve' a spot at the cookers, even if they are quite some distance from the trees at the time they decide to harvest and cook fruit. We have verified that this is never a problem when you have only 4 assigned farmers, but when there are 'bunches' of farmers, it's really difficult to determine who might have 'reserved' a spot at the pit for themselves, since that all takes place behind the scenes in the code. You can assign as many farmers as you like, of course, but many of them will refuse until a spot at the fruit cookers opens up.

So I've been watching for the frogs at the Love Shack until my eyes burn, has anyone seen what the kids do when this happens?

Oooh! Oooh! Me!!! I have!!!