15 year old

One of the things I love about our son is that he's always happy. (Well almost all the time.) I guess I've learned to appreciate that quality more and more as one of our other children becomes moodier and moodier by the day (actually, by the hour). But one of the side affects of being always happy seems to be that he has the ability (as most males do) to turn a switch and stop thinking about something unpleasant whenever he wants to. Therefore, he seems to be able to listen to us talk for an hour about how he needs to be more responsible with his things and how he needs to be more trustworthy to do his chores, and he can walk away, bouncing around, singing, and cheerfully forgetting that he ever had anything he forgot to do or there might still be things he needs to do. He has to write lots of sentences today (that's one of the consequences we came up with) and he wasn't happy at first, but like I said, he has the ability to distract himself from thinking about anything he doesn't want to. So the fact that he wouldn't have to write them if he did what he was supposed to the first time doesn't trouble him anymore and now he's happy again. When I called BD this morning to discuss this with him, he said we just have to accept that he may never see the importance of what we are saying while he's at home, but we just have to love him. We both hope and pray this stuff will make sense to him when he's an adult. But I have to admit, it scares me to think this boy will be driving in less than a year.