[itsjulie]

I have the same issues with my 13 year old... he is such a pain in the ass! He is extremely smart, but very lazy. And, his laziness started 2 years ago! We tried everything - he is into dirtbikes, go carts, quads...so we even offered him a quad if he got all A's and B's.....he wasn't even close.

I do believe in positive rewards, but it didn't work with him. We even tried paying him for his good grades. Nothing. What worked was the opposite. He gets punished for anything under a C. 5 days of nothing for a D and 7 for an F.

Now when he says he has no homework, I tell him that is fine, but when your report card comes out I hope you don't have to do any "time". It alleviates some of the stress for me and it seems to work. I went out of state last weekend and I made him come with me (which was just ruining to his weekend) and he actually started one of his reports because he was forced to stay in on a Saturday night!