Chore chart for teens with life skills, earnings and a family agreement

This chore chart for teens respects your teenager as the capable, nearly grown person they are, with clear weekly jobs, step by step guides and skills for real life. You get 14 undated pages, among them a weekly chart, guides for the bedroom, laundry and kitchen, a money tracker, a privileges page and a family agreement. It arrives as US Letter and A4 PDF files, ready as an instant download, with nothing mailed to you.

Set it up together once and let the pages do the reminding.

How a chore chart for teens ends the daily arguments

Sit down as a family, settle on the core jobs and the paid extras, then put it in writing in an agreement you both sign. The laundry, kitchen and bedroom guides spell out how each task is done, so there is no debate about what clean looks like.

A life skills checklist and a page on making phone calls get your teen ready for living on their own, from making dinner to phoning a doctor's office. Nothing is dated, so you can print a new weekly chart whenever you need one and keep the guides together in a binder.

Who this teen chore chart suits

• Parents of 12 to 18 year olds who would rather have a fair system than repeat themselves every day
• Teens keen to earn money, privileges and more freedom at home
• Families preparing a teenager for college, a first job or a first apartment
• Blended families and busy homes where several people share the housework

Design and printing details

• A clean, elegant look on white pages with soft blush pink accents that need very little ink
• Generous margins all around, so a home printer won't trim anything
• Portrait pages in US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• No dates, so it works in any year
• Fits a binder or clipboard, or have it spiral bound at a print shop

Inside the chore chart for teens: 14 pages

1. 1A cover with an index of pages
2. 2How this works, with four setup steps to do together, lists for core chores and for paid or bonus jobs, your check-in day and what follows a missed chore
3. 3Weekly chore chart with room for 12 chores and a daily tick box, plus spots for done without a reminder, needed a reminder or help, money earned and privilege earned
4. 4Room cleaning checklist covering a quick daily reset of 10 minutes, a weekly clean and a monthly deep clean, each with 6 tasks and blank lines, plus a My room, my way box
5. 5Laundry how-to in 6 steps (sort, check the label, treat stains, wash, dry, then fold and put away) with notes per step, a guide to water temperatures and a place for your own machine settings
6. 6Kitchen chores, listing 6 jobs after each meal and 6 weekly jobs, 6 steps for filling the dishwasher, 6 steps for washing by hand and a weekly kitchen job chart
7. 7Life skills checklist of 20 skills sorted into 5 groups (food, money, health, home, out in the world), each marked as learning, with help or on my own
8. 8Making a phone call, with a checklist for before you dial, 5 useful phrases, room for your own script, a box for writing things down and a call log of 6 rows
9. 9Monthly chores, with 10 suggested tasks and 3 empty rows across 4 weeks, seasonal jobs and notes for the month ahead
10. 10Extra jobs and pay, with 8 sample jobs and 6 empty rows for the pay or points and what done means, plus payday details
11. 11Earnings tracker of 16 rows for date, job, earned, spent, saved and balance, a savings goal with a progress bar of 10 blocks and totals for each month
12. 12Rewards and privileges, with 8 privilege ideas and 4 empty rows showing how each is earned, plus rewards I'd like and one big goal reward
13. 13Family agreement (responsibilities contract) with 6 promises from your teen and 6 from parents, chores with due dates, what gets earned, what happens after a miss, a review date and lines to sign
14. 14Weekly check-in covering what went well, what got in the way, a rating from 1 to 10, chore swaps, a skill practiced, notes from parent and teen and the focus for next week

What you download

• Teen Chore Chart, US Letter PDF (14 pages)
• Teen Chore Chart, A4 PDF (14 pages)
• Read Me First, a short printing guide (PDF)

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Good to know before you buy

• It is a PDF designed for printing, not a hyperlinked digital planner. You can still open it in most note taking apps and write on the pages.
• You are buying a digital file only. Nothing physical is shipped.
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How this was made

Designed and written by PetiteDiary. AI tools helped draft parts of the text, and some background scenes in the preview images were created with AI. Every page was designed, reviewed and checked before release.

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