Having a hobby can help reduce boredom - and as long as you're not hurting anybody, the activity you choose shouldn't matter.
But one mum has been 'proven wrong' after her teenage neighbour ordered her to stop her one-year-old son from watching her cut the grass.
The mum explained how her son loves sitting in the sun - and looks forward to watching their opposite neighbour potter in the garden. Taking to Reddit, the 25-year-old said: "My toddler and I were playing in the front yard today trying to enjoy what little sun we'd been having and get some fresh air.
"We live in a cul-de-sac so we can see everyones' front yard from ours. The neighbours teenage daughter maybe around 15-years-old comes out with her lawnmower and gets to work on her yard. She lives directly across the street from us. My son loves watching the world go by, he often watches the older kids play on the street and they always interact and say 'Hi' to him.
"So, he runs to our fence with his little juice box and sits down in front of the gate so he can watch her mow the lawn."
The mum goes on to explain how between watching her cut the garden, he also pottered around their own yard, picking at the dandelions and throwing them around.
"I kept my eye on him because it's a low fence and I'd never let him play out front unsupervised," she added.
"I was also just plotting around the garden and looking into my vegetable boxes to see what's growing.
"She kept looking over at my son and then going back to work I watched her walk over to my fence and she started screaming how it's creepy my son watching her and I need to teach him from a young age not to stare at women or else he'll grow up to be a creep.
"I got up right away and grabbed my son and apologised and tried to say he's just curious what your doing but she kept screaming at me because she doesn't like to be watched.
"I scooped my son up who was crying at this point (what baby wouldn't cry being yelled at) and hurried to the back yard so he could play there."
The teenager stormed off while muttering about her being a "bad mother" under her breath, again saying her "son will soon be a creep".
She is now considering stopping her son from playing outside in the front garden completely.
She asked Reddit users: "I'm now feeling really bad about letting my son watch her mow the lawn and maybe we shouldn't play in the front yard any more. Am I the a***hole for letting my son sit and watch?"
In response, one user said: "Even for a 15-year-old that was an overreaction.
"She's old enough to tell you that it's making her uncomfortable and to ask you to come get him.
"Screaming at you was unnecessary, and obviously your toddler isn't creepy.
"Just a teenage overreaction that was probably 85 per cent about something else going on in her life."
Another user added: "That little dude has no concept of what’s even going on at all in life. No offence, no one year old does.
"Babies literally stare at people and things to learn how to be a human."
A third user said: "Yikes, yelling at a baby! This girl must have something going on in her personal life to be so worried about a little baby.
"Kids are inherently curious, you might have to go address this with the teen's mum to prevent future problems."
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