Most places that let people share things with strangers publish first and moderate later. With an audience of young children, that order is the wrong way round.
So the Parents Hub does it the other way. You share a drawing, a coloring page or a story, and nothing happens until one of us has actually looked at it. Only then does it appear. There is no bulk approve button on our side, because a bulk approve button is just a slower way of not looking.
How it is set up
- It sits behind the grown-up PIN. The hub is a parent space. Children do not land in it by tapping around.
- Captions are checked before they are sent. If a caption contains an email address, a phone number or a child’s first name, we say so and ask you to edit it rather than quietly posting it.
- You can like, and you can report. A reported post comes back to a person, not to a counter.
- Yours stay visible to you. Your own posts show their status, so you know whether something is waiting, showing or was turned down, and why.
Notices, so you are not refreshing a page
Approval is not instant, which is the point, so you should not have to keep checking. Anything that happens to something you shared turns up in Notices: approved, not this time, or a reply to a question you asked. Opening the list marks all of it read, because a badge that outlives the visit is a number nobody trusts.
You can also have those notices emailed to you, or not. The switch is at the bottom of the Notices page and it is off until you turn it on.
The delay between sharing something and seeing it appear is not us being slow. It is a person reading it.
