Educational Frustration

I bought some educational games for Sunny, but I've run into some difficulties. He gets frustrated very easily with me.

We were playing a game yesterday where you had to combine a blend and a word ending. Things were going great for a while. Then, he got stuck creating a certain word. Creating a word lets you move ahead one square on the board, and since he's so competitive it's a great motivation. He had to combine SP and AN and then SP and OT. He kept on saying "splan" and "splot". If I tried to help him he got frustrated and if I didn't try to help him he got frustrated. After a couple minutes he started getting too emotionally upset to continue so we had to put the game away and calm down for a bit. He was absolutely fine for the rest of the day. Later that night we all went to a great Ethiopian restaurant and had an excellent meal.

He does much better with his tutor! Ideally, I want to be working on reading stuff at home (games, flashcards) for 15 minutes a day. But I don't know how well that's going to work. We've got two problems: 1) he takes things more personally when he's with me and he gets frustrated. If I push him on something, I'm not just pushing him, I'm "not being nice to him." 2) I'm probably a bad teacher for a six-year-old with a really short attention span. My favorite student group is over the age of 30. I'm confident I'm a good teacher in that range, but otherwise, I'm really just treading water.

I may have to give up. Instead of doing work together, I could increase his tutoring from one hour a week to two. It's expensive, but that's why we get subsidy checks every month. We'll see.