Before-you-post checklist
Five questions before anything goes up — printable wallet card.
The internet's delete button is decorative.
Building the three-second pause that catches the post that matters.
Why it matters
A five-question filter your teen runs in their head before posting anything — about permanence, audience, other people in the shot, mood, and whether tomorrow-them would post it. You go through the five together once, your teen reorders them by what matters most to them, and the tool prints a small card-sized version that lives wherever they'll see it. The questions are written in a teen's voice ('Would I be fine with this on the gym wall?'), not a legal disclaimer's. The goal isn't fear of posting — it's the three-second pause that catches the one post a year that actually matters.
The tool
A wallet-size printable of the five-question filter, ordered by your teen.
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Key points
- Five questions, three seconds — a pause, not a lecture.
- Mood check matters: angry posts are the regretted ones.
- Let your teen reorder the questions so the standard is theirs.
The science
Digital-footprint research shows deleted content routinely survives through screenshots, caches, and re-shares — the technical reality behind 'the internet is forever.' Impulse-posting tracks with mood: posts made angry, hurt, or late at night are disproportionately the regretted ones, which is why a mood question belongs in the filter. Implementation-intention research shows a rehearsed if-then check ('before I post, I ask…') actually fires in the moment, where vague cautions don't. And involving the teen in ordering the questions converts a parental rule into a personal standard — the only kind that operates when no one's watching.
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Keep this where it's useful — send it to yourself or a co-parent, drop a reminder in your calendar, or copy it to hand off.
Before-you-post checklist
The internet's delete button is decorative.
The skill you're building
Building the three-second pause that catches the post that matters.
Key points
- Five questions, three seconds — a pause, not a lecture.
- Mood check matters: angry posts are the regretted ones.
- Let your teen reorder the questions so the standard is theirs.
A wallet-size printable of the five-question filter, ordered by your teen.
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