The Capable Report Card

An ungraded inventory of what a child this age, in a less protected century, would be expected to do without help.

• Cook a hot breakfast without supervisionBuilder
• Make correct change from a five-dollar billTreasurer
• Order food at a restaurant without a parentCommunicator
• Swim twenty-five yards unassistedAthlete
• Sell something they made to a non-relativeEntrepreneur
• Finish a multi-day project without promptingCreative
• Watch a younger sibling for twenty minutesLeader
• Use a phone to find directions to a placeAI Pilot
• Use a hammer without supervisionBuilder
• Ride a bike to a destination and backAthlete
• Hold a two-minute conversation with an adultCommunicator
• Pay at a register and count the changeTreasurer