There’s even electricity up there
I’ve always instilled in my kids that there was nothing that they couldn’t discuss with me. And the same goes for their mom. We really wanted to be the sort of parents that our kids could come to with anything. I was always sort of afraid of my dad. I would get a tongue lashing if I even touched the thermostat in his house. So going to him with any kind of request or need of adult direction was sort of out of the question. I definitely didn’t want to be that sort of guy to my kids. So when my son came to me about a situation that he was having, we sat down in the central air conditioning and discussed it. My oldest son is a pretty brainy kid and spends a lot of time with his face in the books. And that’s fine because that’s his passion and it’s also probably going to get him a full ride to college. I’m all for that since I have two more behind him to get through college. And neither of those kids have the desire for academia that he does. His concern was that he was just not getting the focus he needed inside the central air conditioning of our house. His room was between his sisters and it was just a constant interruption. I could totally see how this would be a problem and so we discussed it. His solution was to move to the attic which is pretty much finished with a plywood floor and sheetrock walls. There’s even electricity up there. Our only dilemma was the heating and cooling of that space. But the HVAC company was able to make quick work of that with a ductless heat pump.