SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “I dread career day because my kid will see no one asks me a follow-up question”, including the private rule underneath it: If no one asks a follow-up question in front of your kid, that's the room delivering its verdict on your job — and your kid is now stuck holding it.
QUIET
“I dread career day because my kid will see no one asks me a follow-up question” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “A quiet room after my slide is a scheduling accident, not a verdict my kid has to carry.”
PRESENT
“I dread career day because my kid will see no one asks me a follow-up question” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “I can tell my kid the real story — the catch, the deadline, the fix — instead of the shrunk version.”
ACTIVE
“I dread career day because my kid will see no one asks me a follow-up question” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write down one real, specific thing you solved at work this month and read it aloud once, alone, the way you'd say it to your kid tonight.
DOMINANT
Right now, “I dread career day because my kid will see no one asks me a follow-up question” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write down one real, specific thing you solved at work this month and read it aloud once, alone, the way you'd say it to your kid tonight.