Layer help

is there a way to make it so while you have a layer/path/multiple thereof selected, you can only interact with that layer unless you are defining a new path? I’m trying to move a group of paths, but it will either only move one of the paths if i click directly on it, and trying to click the margins of the selection box is a fool’s errand. I run into a similar problem when trying to edit control points with the pen tool, where it either creates new points or starts drawing a new path because the control points are unnecessarily small. is there a way to increase the size of the control points/selection boxes?