Originally Posted by Zebra

I've got a 15 year old that I have spoiled pretty well, but he helps around the house when I ask him to plus he is an honors student and plays in the HS marching band and I can't recall having to ground him for more than a day for anything worse than small silly stuff.
He keeps his nose clean and grades up and I reward him for it. Pretty simple system.
He's already working on getting into college (we live 7 miles from Univ of Oklahoma, so pretty sure that is where he is going), so I think it has turned out pretty good.