When you are growing up, you’re generally told that society’s expectation for you is to go off to school, get a good education, get a solid job, and start a family. Not everybody follows the set of rules, but I’m one of the people who didn’t want to disappoint my family. I took the traditional route and did everything right. After doing everything by the books, I have to tell you that I am less satisfied than I had hoped. Although I always wanted a family, I never thought that it would be so incredibly stressful to care for a supposedly loving household of kin. Specifically, the pressures of taking care of my nagging wife and my wild children can get to me. My wife wants me to take care of everything around the house, and that includes major projects like the heating and cooling system. It’s my job to professionally maintain the air quality control devices, simply because I’m the man of the household. Therefore, I have to remember to change the air filters all the time, arrange our regular professional repair appointments, and diagnose HVAC emergencies when something stops working. That seems like enough to worry about, but the kids really don’t help in the air quality control battle. They are spoiled little brats, and they basically terrorize the smart thermostat. Installing a smart thermostat and letting them put the app on their phone was the worst decision of our lives. They have been abusing the heating and cooling system for years now. One of them will turn it up, the other one will turn the temperature back down. It’s a losing battle, me versus the HVAC system, when my household is trying to break it everyday.