We email you a fresh chart every morning, already filled in with your kids and your week. You print the one that came. During the day, you tell Siri what got done. By morning, tomorrow’s chart already knows.
The paper stays. The bookkeeping is ours.
Teenagers can do the laundry start to finish, mow the front yard, cook a weeknight dinner, wash the car, babysit a younger sibling for an hour, clean their own bathroom. Cash starts to make sense for the bigger jobs; keep stars for the daily rhythm. The chart is a contract more than a chore list at this point.
Six to ten, but each one is bigger. A teenager does not need twelve rows; they need three or four jobs that actually move the household forward. Mow, laundry, dinner, bathroom. The rest can stay informal.
Stars are a unit, not a currency. Most families count stars on Sunday and trade them for a small reward — a movie pick, an extra story, a trip to the library. A few families pay cash for the bigger jobs and stars for the rest. Both work. Pick what your kid can hold in their head without a spreadsheet.