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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does he do when he gets up early? 
Stare out the window?
Yes, you should have stopped “helping” him in the morning a long time ago, so please stop now.[/quote]

OP Plays video games for one. Thinks that he can leave at the last minute and get to his destination on time. If I helped him, he would get there on time, but I don't so he is late.[/quote]

This won't be popular with the "do nothing for him" crowd here, but I'd find a way to block the games in the morning. Make the game controller disappear every night or whatever. He sounds like he lacks the maturity to resist gaming first thing in the morning and since he's still in HS I wouldn't hesitate to lock up whatever was the big distraction -- in this case, the gaming system or whatever he's using.

The rest of getting up and out the door can be on him.

Is it a summer internship? Those are sought after! I'd be crystal clear with him that if he loses something as good as an internship due to lateness he will be doing absolute grunt work around the house with his newly "free" time. Other students are hungry for internships. If he loses his due to repeated tardiness, he's denied another teen that slot this summer--someone who might have valued the internship enough to get there on time every day. That would be pretty much the speech he'd get from me. 
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