I don't think so, Ellen, but when a villager is "telling a story" to kids, it increases the parenting skills!

too bad.
So the nursing school is good for the children, but not for the adults. Again, too bad.

Ok, now I have a question.

I just joined the forum, just started playing the game..but this is frustrating for me.

I have a villager who is 59 years old and nursing a baby (have the parenting box checked - they can have babie past 50 obviously)...she has been a parent since the age of 18....

This is the problem:

She is still only an adept parent. 41 years or parenting...who knows how many kids..and STILL not a master parent...Do I have a bad copy of the game or something?

No, you don't have a bad copy. If you want her to master the skill, once she stops nursing uncheck the parenting box and do some speed kissing.

Yea...I kept it checked and had her do some speed kissing with my adept male parent...I was waiting for him to become a master for him to be a scholar.

Well, I got my wish. After some serious speed kissing between the two of them...They BOTH became master parents and I got my first Scholar.

On a side note:

What is up with these names of the characters? Puanni? Roo? Akuna? I am having a hard time coming up with real names for them...

It DOES take a lot of speed-kissing to get someone up to Master. I've found that if I use a different guy each time, it raises both of the levels, as the guy has no experience and will take more kisses before producing a baby.

The names come from a "name generator" and I admit some of them are pretty strange. Depending on the generation, I take the first 2 letters and make a name from then. If I had "Roo", I'd name her ROse or something like that. You can always look up "baby names" to find some new names.

I finally got an master parent by frequent Speed kissing!But the kids havbe an head start in parenting because the teacher teaches them parenting1 ackward...

Getting a female Master Parent is really difficult by "natural" means. I found that it helps to use a different male, preferably one with no parenting experience, each time. Getting that woman to be a scholar is also a challenge!

Let's hear it for speed kissing!

It's easy to tell when you get your first master parent! Hooray for trophy notifications!

I try speed-kissing for my villagers, but their skill doesn't get higher than adept parent. It has worked before.

Oh well!