He'll be up and gone before your alarm even goes off. Recruit the team's coach to hold practice at dawn on Saturday morning. Sure he'll grumble a bit, but he'll do it. Your teen is getting up to do something he wants to do. It doesn't take a brain surgeon or a Ph.D. to figure out that one.
Teens are notorious for their motivation to do something as long as it's something they want to do.
If it's something you want them to do, well, they could sleep through a foghorn in their ear. Obviously those scientists conducting the wakefulness study don't have teenagers of their own. Nikki Boehm, Parenting Today's Teen Managing Editor, writes about family, parenting and Web-related issues. She also writes romance, fantasy and mystery. Her first writing love is humor, although she admits parenting a teen isn't always funny.