Except that houses you aren't playing don't run like that. Have you ever done some voyeurism in your game? Neighbor households run like dorm rooms in TS2: University. They are docking stations where the sims are kept in a neutral, static state. Babies/toddlers are not interacted with at all in townie homes, regardless of their position. My current family is set across the street from a household where the townies had twin boys. The boys lay abandoned in the front yard from baby through toddler stages. To date, they are both adults, spending their neutral time in the yard.
Taking advice from the BBS? Seriously?
Yes i noticed that shit and it pissed me off much more acutely because the spawn was one of my own. I was like WAFM waaah is mah babeh on the lawnz!?!
Can't imagine what the game would be like with rabbid lawn growth + this shit + riding lawn mower.. or robot lawn mower (it wouldn't care). Breutt.. mess of simlet all of the lawn and house and car and horrified criminally negligent sims.