
Kid Doc — Good Job Being the Mom!
A fun and informative podcast for all the challenges parents face in raising their brood!
Kid Doc — Good Job Being the Mom!
About us--Jason Hoagland, M.D. and Emily Hoagland Gottfredson, J.D.--almost
An introduction to us as your hosts and the catalyst behind this podcast
Episode #2 PILOT
Topic: Welcome to the “Kid Doc— Good job being the Mom” Podcast—the podcast dedicated to helping mothers and fathers through supporting, enabling, and empowering them in their amazing role as parents!
Intro: For this first episode we want to introduce ourselves to you as your hosts:
Em: Growing up in the same town my whole life, with a pretty tight knit community, I often got the question: “Is Dr. Hoagland your dad?”
Dad: That’s funny because as the father of a dynamic, accomplished daughter, I often got the question: Are you Emily Hoagland’s dad?
About Emily—My name is Emily Hoagland Gottfredson. I was born in Cleveland, Ohio where my dad was in residency. We moved to Kaysville, Utah where I spent the next 16 years singing, dancing, studying, skiing. I attended BYU where I majored in Finance at minored in Contemporary Dance. I am currently a second-year law student at BYU Law. While most of my time is spent studying, I enjoy being active outdoors and cooking alongside my husband.
About Dad—I am Jason Hoagland, husband to Amy and we are the parents of 5 children—Emily is our first child and only daughter and then we have four boys after her—Joshua, Tyler, Will, and Brock, I work as a community pediatrician in Utah, I was born and raised in San Diego and move to Fresno for High School, BYU—split time between organic chemistry and football, mission for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Melbourne Australia, U of U for medical school , Residency Rainbow in Cleveland—which is why no one visited us unless we had a baby—…, raised our kids skiing and boating at attempts to keep them close on a chair lift and in a boat together
3 highlights
- For this pilot, let’s get more foundational material. Why did you choose pediatrics as a specialty?
- 2 pathways in medical school: cut or not cut, work with adults or kis, kids without guile and can trust them, not drug seeking, I know that when a child is limping that something is wrong, that they hurt. No ulterior motives.
- Pediatrician—children don’t have guile—I can trust them. When they limp, I know they are in pain and they would rather be running and playing.
- What do you love about your job?
- rewarded with a job where kids make me smile every day with their questions and comments; they want to get better; there are relationships that form over decades with children and their parents—starts with the beginning of their life, there through struggles of illness—trusted by parents with caring for what they care about most in the world, challenges of adolescence
- Okay, so why are we doing this podcast? Let’s share our podcast mission, vision, and methods:
- Our mission statement is—to support, enable, and empower (SEE acronym?) mothers and fathers to be the best parents for their children
- This really is the catalyst behind the podcast—the chance to share information that help parents to SEE them themselves being successful with their brood
- Our vision is to share with you 20 years of experience being a practical resource for parents in raising their children.
- Not trying to be the most complete deep dive into the research on topics, but the practical, every day questions and concerns that moms and dads have—the things they struggle with
- Our Method is to Support, Enable, and Empower parents.
- Let’s talk about supporting first—How we hope to support parents?
- I think it is SO important for mothers specifically, and parents in general, to fell support in this most challenging role. While at work you may get more immediate rewards and accolades, the return on the parenting investment may take decades.
- Mothering—person who is caring for and protecting like a mother
- God wanted to share the strongest metaphor possible that He will not forget us, He uses the most powerful image of caring that a woman would forget her sucking child before He would forget us.
- At work I often say “Good job being the mom.” OR “Good job by you”—support for parents that you are better than nothing, that your kids are lucky to have you and that you are good enough at your job
- T-shirt I saw—“All is good in the motherhood”—I think this is the Pinterest version of parenting—an idealized and unrealistic expectation for parenting. The clothing line I would sell would include—better than nothing OR they are lucky to have me. Parents need support for the job they are doing and not a false sense of success to compare themselves with.
- Enable—How do we hope to enable parents
- So many books you can turn to, so many places that want to tell you the right way to raise your child—take in what you can, but you are writing the book for your child
- support and help for parents by providing access to the advice, counsel, and answers to questions that I share on a daily basis with imperfect parents who are doing their best
- Empower—How do we hope to empower parents
- There is always a reason for every problem. Our goal is to work together as patient, parent, and doctor to figure out why. Parents know what is wrong with their children. My job is to listen to them. Medical school and residency training is a study in learning to know the right questions to ask questions that help us come to an understanding of what is wrong and then working together to find a solution.
- Our mission statement is—to support, enable, and empower (SEE acronym?) mothers and fathers to be the best parents for their children
With this introduction, we invite you to start a journey with us as we take you through all the stages of your child’s life as well as make side journeys to specific challenges and problems we want to help you navigate.