Our child thought that when he went to college, he was going to have the same comforts that he had at home.
He and three other gentlemen were sharing a dorm room.
They had more than one sets of bunk beds, and small desks at the end of each bunk bed so the teenagers had their own studying space. There was a small closet and a small dresser for each guy. There were more than one lavatorys that were shared by their hallway. His next question was about the temperature control. He wanted to think how he was going to control the heat and air conditioner in the dorm room. My fiance chuckled and told him that the hall monitor really had access to the temperature control. Not every room had its own temperature control. Our child was devastated. He thought it was a right to have his own temperature control, and he planned on protesting. II told him that when he became a senior, he would be able to have his own dorm room, or he would be residing off campus. Up until that point, he had to accept that residing in the dorm was not the same as residing at home, and he wouldn’t have quality heat like he had at home. I thought our child was going to be the only one to whine about the lack of temperature controls but as his roommate arrived, I found I was wrong. Each one thought they should have a temperature control to control their own comfort. As parents, we all chuckled at the naivete of our children, and how they were going to do a lot of growing up over the next year. Hopefully they would learn to love what they have at home.