Flusterclux With Lynn Lyons: For Parents Who Worry How To Teach Your Child To Handle Frustration
Oct 3, 2025
Explore how to boost your child's frustration tolerance, tackling listener concerns about rigidity and emotional skills. Learn practical strategies like movement and breaks to manage frustration effectively. Discover phrases to replace 'You can handle it!' to disrupt worry. Lynn emphasizes the importance of modeling emotional resilience and making skills learnable through practice. This engaging discussion highlights real-life scenarios and encourages parents to embrace their own reactions while guiding their children through challenges.
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Use Stepwise Boxes To Teach Frustration
- Break learning into clear sequential steps and map them visually so kids see progression from easy to mastery.
- Use familiar mastered examples to normalize frustration as part of moving through those boxes.
Bike Learning Example Of Normal Frustration
- Lynn uses bike-riding as a concrete example of learning through trial and error and handling frustration.
- The story illustrates moving from falling to mastery by persisting through normal frustration.
Label Body Signals And Link Coping Steps
- Ask the child to name physical signs of frustration and observable behaviors when it arises.
- Link those signs to coping steps like breath, break, or asking for help so responses become predictable.