6 years old
• Learn chores
• Friend’s birthday party
• Stay up for New Year’s Eve
7 years old
• Answer the phone
8 years old
• Feed pets
• Go to camp
• Work at the General Store
9 years old
• Stay up until 8:30 p.m.
• Run computer (monitored)
• Set up e-mail account (monitored)
• Weekly church chore
10 years old
• Start saving, way to earn money
• Dishes
• Friend’s birthday party
11 years old
• Learn to babysit
• Start a collection
• 6th grade graduation—buy a Bible
12 years old
• Ears pierced (girl)
• Buy a .22 rifle
• Drive on dirt roads
13 years old
• Stay up until 9:00 p.m.
• Begin teaching makeup, have a makeover
• Out to eat with only him, he chooses the restaurant
• Purchase technology item
• 8th grade camp at Camp Peniel
14 years old
• Cook one meal a week
• Braces, if necessary
• Take over yard (boy)
• Woodshop project
• Purchase camera
15 years old
• Dating standards started
• Camp elsewhere
• Parenting standards started
• Personal checking account
16 years old
• Leadership Live—six weeks away from home
• Dating standards completed
• Big birthday party
• Purchase hope chest / toolbox
• Stay up as late as they want, within reason
17 years old
• Graduation gifts
• Driver license
• Purchase a computer
• Personal responsibility for getting to church and for
staying home for sickness
18 years old
• Move away or pay rent
• Choose a direction in life—learn how to make big
decisions