Oh man, that drives me nuts too. And the kids can't even "Go Home" it's always "Follow _____." I wish we could cancel the action in favor of go home so I'm not wasting my time with this kid who is running all around the lot following someone.
This also drove me nuts to the point of resort to just reset the kid to make the kid at home ASAP and the adult continue what he have to do. (This guy was suppose to socializing his boss to get promotion)
Also, the "witnessed a breakup" moodlet is obnoxious. I had that one recently on an infant. A just-born-a-day-earlier infant. How can they even figure out what's going on? Toddlers I could understand that - infants? No.
I learn it the hard way on the Goth pairs when I broke them up. The negative mood plus his grumpiness totally make it for the most annoying sim to interact with. (nothing I could do in that time span that could lift up his mood AT ALL)
Since then I always put the pair that's ready for break up in a room and look the room for everyone before hit it all the way.
I agree though, witness break-up on infant is a bit too extreme, EA.