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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 006: Asher Talks About Ways to Handle Being an Easily Frustrated Child

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this special kid’s POV edition, I share a short conversation I had with my 11-year-old Asher about being an easily frustrated child. Being easily frustrated is an issue many differently wired kids deal with on a regular basis, and it can lead to challenging situations in the classroom and at home. It’s also a tough one for many parents to know how to handle because frustrations can often seem to come from what we might be perceive to be an overreaction to something. Therefore, it can be harder for us to empathize and support our child through the frustration. I’ll definitely be exploring the issue of frustration in more depth on future episodes, but for this episode, Asher and I examine what happened on a day when he made a mistake on an art project. Because he didn’t have a big reaction to something that in the past would have really disrupted his whole experience, I wanted to find out how he processed the frustration without having an explosion. Debbie Reber is the founder of TiLT Parenting and the host of the TiLT Parenting Podcast. Asher is Debbie’s 11-year-old child and is regularly featured on the podcast. Find out more about Debbie and Asher by visiting the About Page. Things you’ll learn from this episode What frustration feels like from a kid’s POV Why a child’s frustration can actually be an opportunity to practice having healthier emotional responses A resource we’ve tapped into to learn some in-the-moment frustration strategies Resources mentioned about being an easily frustrated child What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger by Dawn Huebner Support the show Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So I'm just curious, what has changed for you or what feels different for you that's

1:00.0

preventing you from having that big explosion of frustration.

1:03.2

I'm not exactly sure.

1:05.2

Part of it is that I'd rather not destroy my own work.

1:10.8

Does it feel different for you?

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It feels better.

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Can you describe kind of what's going on in your mind?

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That's...

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