Apparently, within one week of moving into her new digs, the AC unit broke down.
Sometimes it’s best to teach your kids by letting them make massive mistakes. You can try to keep them safe and control their lives, but it does no good. They’re just going to resent you. In order to let my children learn their lessons, I’ll keep my mouth shut while they experience life on their own. I’ll be here when they come crawling back. This was the case recently when my daughter insisted that she wanted to move out of our house to strike out on her own. I could have stopped her, but instead I let her walk right out the door. I knew that she wouldn’t be gone long, with the outdoor air temperature we’ve been experiencing. My daughter has never had to pay bills on her own and I knew she would have no idea what she was in for when the energy bill came around each month. She’s absolutely never seen the energy expense from running an AC unit day in and day out. When she moved out, I bet that she would last one month before her utility woes drove her back home. I was wrong; it only took two weeks before she stopped paying her own energy expenses and was back in the safety of our central AC system. Apparently, within one week of moving into her new digs, the AC unit broke down. Between the cost of an HVAC emergency repair and her monthly utility bills, my daughter was broke. She couldn’t live without the AC system and she couldn’t find more cash to cover her portion of the HVAC appointment. She was knocking on our door within days of leaving.