I am following along with the Parenting and Inherited Properties video. I started by opening fundamentals-of-rigging_chapter1_lesson1-2-4_monkey-heads.blend. I did the parent operation, and I saw the parent-child relationship reflected in the outline. Then I moved the parent around, as in the video. But the child does not move with the parent, unlike in the video. I tried switching to blender2.74, in case it was a version issue, but got the same behavior. I did notice that after moving the parent (with the child not moving), if I then try to move the child it jumps suddently to a different position and then starts to move. Any thought about what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.
I came across a comment on the Internet that made me think the issue might have something to do with constraints. I opened up the scene afresh, and found that the object named Suzanne.003 had a constraint attached to it. I deleted the constraint, and performed the parent operation again. Now the child object moves with the parent, as in the tutorial video. I don't quite know what constraints are yet, but I see that I will be learning about them in a future lesson.