“I Comply with the Recommendations”: The Interactional Construction of ‘Good Parenting’ in Pediatrician-Parent Conversations

The paper sheds light on the invisible pedagogical dimension of pediatrician-parent interactions. It does so by adopting a Conversation Analysis-informed approach to corpus 23 video-recorded well-child visits involving two pediatricians and twenty-two families with children aged 0 18 months. In particular, analysis focuses how mother seeks pediatrician’s advice everyday baby care issues. single-case is illustrative parents in this corpus, when seeking advice, perform themselves as “good” parents: competent knowledgeable caring practices, concerned their children’s well-being, concurrently sensitive ultimate epistemic deontic authority pediatricians.