Age 14
Chore chart for 14 year olds
Fourteen can run a laundry cycle and a familiar recipe. They can also lawyer every gap in your memory. The chart is the record.
Keep baseline house jobs separate from paid extras. Mixing them is how “you never pay me” and “you never help” become the same argument.
What a 14-year-old can do
Use this as a menu. Your house, your safety rules.
- Laundry through drawers
- A weeknight dinner from a card
- Bathroom reset
- Yard or car interior
- A short money log for allowance
Skip these for now
Not because kids are incapable of growth — because the risk or the teaching cost is too high for a first chart.
- Unsupervised power tools
- Being the family chauffeur
- Jobs you would not trust a new employee to do cold
How to run the week
If practice nights wipe out the list, name a weekend make-up row instead of pretending school nights are free.
Print the 14-year-old template for the fridge. Use the tracker when two adults need the same week.
Reward idea: A set allowance rate, not a mood.
Layout: Points table from the 14-year-old library chart.
Questions parents ask
- How many chores at this age?
- Fewer rows, heavier jobs.
- Printable or digital?
- Either. Teens often prefer checking a phone. Little kids prefer the fridge.