Situation

Parenting Stack Exchange can be an extremely subjective environment to ask and answer questions. We have tailored our Tour, Help, and FAQs to guide new and existing users on the areas that are on and off topic. Anything within those "on topic" arenas typically means that, while the question may still be marginally subjective, there can be objective answers that meet the parameters of the given question.

For the life of Parenting.SE, there have always been answers to certain questions that try and challenge the very premise of the question. We will keep the same lingo as other Stack Exchange sites have done and call this a "frame challenge" answer - an answer that challenges the premise or frame of the question.

Examples in summary

Question: I want my child to learn {x} skill. How can I teach my child this skill?

Frame Challenge Answer: Don't teach your child {x} skill. It's not useful. Try this {y} skill instead.

Question: How do I get my teenager to clean their room? They aren't doing it now and it needs to be clean.

Frame Challenge Answer: Your teenager needs to worry about other things. You should clean their room for them.

The question

It has always been said as doctrine of the site that "we don't challenge the premise of the question?" yet it was recently pointed out that there is no clear, definite ruling on this in Meta, in the Help, or in the Tour. There have been questions asked about this in the past - this example specifically - but it was never really set in stone as to appropriate responses for frame challenge answers.

Thus the question is at the forefront again. Does Parenting.SE entertain frame-challenge answers? Do we argue the premise of a question?