151: 5 Ways to Teach Your Sensitive Child to Handle Frustration & Anger

Watch my video →How to End Your Child's Meltdowns in 8 Weeks or Less

If your sensitive child melts down the second something feels too hard, their brain is sending you a message: they don't know how to handle frustration yet.

As a Harvard-educated clinical psychologist, parenting coach, and mom of three sensitive kids, I've spent the last 15 years helping families end the meltdowns that come from frustration your child can't yet tolerate.

Here's the part most parents miss: Frustration tolerance is an executive function. It develops on its own timeline and no amount of fixing, rescuing, or rebuilding block towers will speed that up. Rushing in just gets in the way.

Sensitive kids reach frustration faster than other children, which makes the pull to intervene even stronger.

I'll walk through five practical shifts that help your child learn to sit with the discomfort instead of lashing out or giving up. There's a story in here about my own son, a drawing, and a trash can that shows exactly what this looks like in real life.

If power struggles and meltdowns are the pattern in your home, grab a seat and listen up.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[2:07] Tip one: rushing in to fix the puzzle piece is actually hurting your child

[3:00] Tip two: following your child's lead instead of fixing their frustration

[4:31] Tip three: scaffolding, and the toddler zipper example every parent needs

[5:44] Tip four: modeling your own frustration so kids see it's survivable

[7:24] Tip five: celebrating frustration as a sign of learning something new

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