Wash the car at 11: ready to do it alone
At 11, most children can wash the car on their own: about 30 minutes, monthly, alone around 11.
Wash the car at 11, 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 30 minutes
- How often
- Monthly
- Points
- 15 (5 for a small job, 10 for a bigger one)
- Starts with help
- around 6
- Alone
- around 11
⚠️ Safety: Only with the car parked, engine off and keys away from the car.
Other outdoors jobs at 11
- Bring in the mail (alone)
- Pull weeds (alone)
- Rake leaves (alone)
- Shovel snow (with help)
A day of jobs at 11
- Daily jobs
- 3 or 4
- Weekly jobs
- 2
- Time
- 20 to 30 minutes a day
In TaskFamily, "Wash the car" becomes a job on your 11-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.