Our daughter is a teenager and she is very independent and assertive these days.
All teenage girls go through a phase like this at some point in their lives, so I’m not surprised.
I just take her attitude day by day and try to keep things as normal as possible. Recently, she’s been complaining about the temperature of her room. Every morning when I ask her how she’s slept, she tells me that she didn’t sleep at all because it was too hot. She sleeps in the loft up on the second floor, so I’m not surprised by her comments. However, she begged us to have her own room and this was the only space in the house that allowed it. Before she moved all her things up into the loft, we told her that it would be warmer up there because the heat from the lower level would naturally rise. We only have one HVAC zone in our house, so there would be no way to heat or cool the upstairs evenly with the rest of the house. Still, she insisted on getting her own room. As a woman myself, I understand the need for her own space and I felt bad about her being too hot at night even though I did warn her. This is why, for the holidays, I’ve decided to get her a ductless mini split system. It will be installed by an HVAC professional and provide the loft with heat and air. There will be a small remote to control the temperature and it will keep our daughter comfortable without affecting the HVAC system.
