https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wd6uc-1b92a25

Dr. Curtis Peterson and early childhood educator Elsa Peterson examine the crisis in early childhood behavior, explaining how young children’s neurobiology drives meltdowns and why traditional compliance-based discipline fuels exclusion and expulsion.

They introduce co-regulation and trauma-informed classroom strategies—sensory “time-in” spaces, universal design for learning, and early childhood mental health consultation—and preview the next episode on educator burnout and workforce instability.