It’s a wonder to me just how smart kids are these days.
- I was not at all engaged in the sorts of things that my kids easily understand.
I’m hoping that’s a testament to both their schooling and how we raise them. At the same time, I think kids now are just more plugged in to thing give their access to technology. For me, my daughter just saved me a ton of money on HVAC cooling costs last summer. This was due to the lesson she gave me about some HVAC technology that I had been resistant to engage. For years, we’ve had the same digital thermostat. And I’ve taken it upon myself to be the one who programs and manages the thermostat. I’m like a hawk on the thermostat setting to make sure that we don’t spend too much on HVAC cooling. Where we live, that’s the big money drain when it comes to the heating and cooling equipment. I only wish I could have my winter electric bill all year. So I was getting heckled again by my son about being the thermostat miser when my daughter chimed in. But she chimed in both defending the conservation of resources but also broke it down for me what I was missing. The facts were that if we had a smart thermostat, not only would I not have to be the thermostat hawk but it would save more money. I took her up on that and put in the smart thermostat. Dang if that piece of HVAC technology didn’t save me an additional 15 percent on top of what I had been able to save on my own.