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“Doing being a good parent” in the pediatric clinic: Parents' knowledge displays in advice requests on infants' everyday care

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  • Ranzani, Federica

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Parents and pediatricians play pivotal roles in promoting a nurturing environment for children's growth and development, especially during the critical first thousand days of life. Given the challenges involved in infant care and rearing, parents often rely on pediatricians' professional support in a wide range of daily caregiving practices as diverse as complementary feeding, hygiene management, pacifier use, or sleep routines. Nevertheless, little attention has been devoted to the in vivo observation of how parents actually request advice on babies' everyday care, and how pediatricians attend to such requests. By adopting a conversation analysis approach to a corpus of 23 videorecorded Italian pediatric well-child visits, the article explores the different ways through which parents navigate the face-threatening activity of soliciting the pediatrician's advice on infants' everyday care and management. The analysis illustrates that parents overall display (different degrees of) prior knowledge and competence on the topics brought to the pediatrician's attention while, at the same time, acknowledging the pediatrician's expertise and professional role. In this way, I argue that parents display themselves as competent, knowledgeable, caring, and therefore “good parents”. After discussing the results, in the concluding remarks I point to what seems to be a cultural change in parent-healthcare provider interactions.

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  • Ranzani, Federica, 2024. "“Doing being a good parent” in the pediatric clinic: Parents' knowledge displays in advice requests on infants' everyday care," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 351(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:351:y:2024:i:c:s0277953624004088
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116964
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