Iron clothes at 15: ready to do it alone
At 15, most children can iron clothes on their own: about 15 minutes, as needed, alone around 15.
Iron clothes at 15, at a glance
- Stage
- On their own
- What they do
- doing the whole job without being shown, to a decent standard for the age
- How you check
- spot-check now and then, and hand over the job for good
- Time it takes
- about 15 minutes
- How often
- As needed
- Points
- 10 (5 for a small job, 10 for a bigger one)
- Starts with help
- around 12
- Alone
- around 15
⚠️ Safety: Irons get hot enough to burn. Teach them to stand the iron upright, keep the cord out of the way and switch it off straight after.
Other laundry jobs at 15
- Put dirty clothes in the hamper (alone)
- Match socks from the laundry (alone)
- Put clean clothes away (alone)
- Sort laundry by color (alone)
- Fold laundry (alone)
- Change the bed sheets (alone)
- Do a load of laundry (alone)
- Do their own laundry start to finish (alone)
A day of jobs at 15
- Daily jobs
- 3 to 5
- Weekly jobs
- 2 or 3, including one they own start to finish
- Time
- 30 to 45 minutes a day
In TaskFamily, "Iron clothes" becomes a job on your 15-year-old's own screen. The Trust Ladder moves each job from "check every time" to spot checks to full trust as they prove they can do it.
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Ages and times are typical, not rules: children develop at different speeds, and you know yours best. The chore library is TaskFamily's own. The guide text is drafted with AI from these numbers and checked automatically before it is published.