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Big Emotions & Emotional Regulation

Building Frustration Tolerance

Growing your child's window of tolerance — slowly, warmly, deliberately.

4 modules $99
Building Frustration Tolerance
Course overview

Inside this course

Frustration tolerance is the muscle that lets a child stay in a hard moment without collapsing, exploding or giving up. It is not grit or toughness — it is a nervous-system skill. This course teaches you the neuroscience of the window of tolerance, how to gently widen it, and the everyday practices that grow persistence without pressure.

Learning outcomes

You'll finish with

  • Understand the window of tolerance in child terms
  • Recognize the two exits (blow-up and give-up)
  • Build persistence through scaffolded challenge
  • Retire rescuing without slipping into pushing
Curriculum

Course modules

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You have given your child something more durable than 'grit'. You have given them a wider window.

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