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I expected this book to help teach strategies for frustration tolerance. Here’s what I got: the monster, Twitch, is having a terrible day from the moment he wakes up. He is as frustrated as anyone would be given the circumstances, and he eventually snaps at his friends. He tries counting to 10 and taking 4 deep breaths but this doesn’t help him. Eventually he meets a squirrel who experiences the potentially frustrating situation of acorns rolling away over and over. But the squirrel doesn’t get frustrated. What’s the squirrel’s frustration tolerance strategy? He just doesn’t get frustrated! That’s it. He stays positive. The next day Twitch doesn’t encounter any frustrating situations, and he doesn’t get frustrated. That’s not really helpful. I would have liked my kids to get some strategies besides just being positve. How would Twitch have handled frustration after learning from the squirrel? We don’t know because the next day he’s on time and a mouse serves him breakfast in bed instead of stealing his breakfast. Frustration is a normal human emotion. I’d like to help my kids learn to handle it. Telling them to just be positive isn’t realistic. I’ll be returning this.