Make the bed at 5: practising with less help
At 5, most children can make the bed with less help each week: about 3 minutes, daily, alone around 6.
Make the bed at 5, at a glance
- Stage
- Practising, with less help
- What they do
- doing most of the job themselves with you nearby to answer questions and finish off the hard part
- How you check
- check most times, and fix one thing at a time rather than everything
- Time it takes
- about 3 minutes
- How often
- Daily
- Points
- 5 (5 for a small job, 10 for a bigger one)
- Starts with help
- around 4
- Alone
- around 6
Other tidying up jobs at 5
- Put toys away (alone)
- Hang up their coat and put shoes away (alone)
- Tidy their bedroom (with help)
A day of jobs at 5
- Daily jobs
- 2 or 3 short jobs
- Weekly jobs
- 1, done with you
- Time
- 10 to 15 minutes a day
In TaskFamily, "Make the bed" becomes a job on your 5-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.