Your job isn't to ensure that your child becomes an adult who can (fill in the blank: wake himself up every morning/brush his teeth twice a day/make a good living/have a good marriage/control his temper/practice his religion, etc, etc..). After all, you have no control whatsoever over what your child will or will not do in adulthood. Your job is simply to TEACH him these things: to expose him to your own healthy model and offer him the information, encouragement, incentives and consequences that will HELP him internalize the lessons you want to convey. Do what you can do and pray. Your child is responsible for making himself into the adult that he will become. You are only responsible for gently pointing him in the right direction.
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