Should there be a 'parenting' skill?

[trooper6]

Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

That works. How is persuading a child to concentrate on working towards their goals and not screw up their life any different to doing the same with an employee, a member of your squad or any other person you have authority over? It's basically the same skill as you would use on an adult, it's just that when applied to a child the task difficulty modifier will be very favourable to you because you have significantly more familiarity with and control over a child than you would most adults.

This means that most people will be able to get by with default rolls, those with good social skills (or just good attributes to base their social skills off) will generally be slightly better parents than average, people with exceptionally bad social skills (whether from low attributes or disadvantages) will be worse than average at raising children and some parents could justify putting a couple of points into skills like Leadership or Teaching (or the Dabbler perk for such skills) simply from being parents.

This is why I favor having Professional Skill: Parenting. My character was the one in whswhs's THS campaign with the daughter.

By basing it on good social skills, then James Bond makes the best parent ever...but an average frumpy person...not so much.

You make it PS: Parenting, and with the bonus to routine tasks most people do okay off of default...and then over time they learn that skill a bit through OJT. If PS: Housekeeping is a skill, then PS: Parenting is definitely kosher as a skill.