Today was the 10th of January, a little over a week had passed. Why the skip? Because going through the details of the past few days was too embarrassing. Instead, I'll summarize.
I had made no progress for five days, but after that, I finally was able to suck it up and electrocute the frogs to death. After that, the next challenge was letting them hop onto me. To my own surprise, it only took a couple of days to get through that, likely the result of successfully getting through the previous steps. After that, we spent a couple of days getting me used to being around them while maintaining my composure...