Glad those ideas were helpful. One reward mechanic could be a jar of positive affirmations that he pulls from whenever he feels he deserves it. He could also benefit from learning meditation as that can be a nice life skill that allows for deep introspection and sometimes reworking your own thought processes. I was thirteen when I sent away for the "Advanced Memory" booklet from the "Institute of Advanced Thinking" with my allowance from the back of Omni magazine.