Why, when someone shares with you the tool that they've used to free themselves from distraction, is your response to go, "oh, let me tell them how to get aroun

Why, when someone shares with you the tool that they've used to free themselves from distraction, is your response to go, "oh, let me tell them how to get around that tool so that it no longer works for them." ? How is that anything but a massive imposition of disutility to the parent and to anyone else that uses the tool?