Choosing a Daycare: Clinician's Guide

About this episode

This episode explores the deeper aspects of choosing a daycare that impact a child's brain development, featuring insights from Dr. Elahe Raoufi.

When you tour a daycare, the brochures talk about ratios and curriculum. But what actually shapes a young child's developing brain is something you can only read between the lines. In this episode, our hosts unpack a recent KinderPage guest piece by Dr. Elahe Raoufi (MD, MA, CRPO, CCPA), a physician-trained psychotherapist and founder of Odyssey to Me Psychotherapy Clinic in Richmond Hill, who reframes the daycare search around the one thing licensing checklists can't capture: whether the roo...

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Elahe Raoufi

Topics covered

• daycare
• child development
• psychotherapy
• parenting
• education

Keywords

• daycare
• child brain development
• psychotherapist
• parenting tips
• childcare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Odyssey to Me Psychotherapy Clinic