Lack of Integrity

Each week we have a family meeting. Everyone in the family gets two rounds to speak their mind. Usually Little Kat is pretty quiet during these meetings. I encourage him to bring up issues or make proposals. Today Little Kat did do so.

Here is the background. Previously Little Kat had been negligent in doing his laundry. He would hide the cleaned laundry so he would not have to put it away. Or he would just toss the clean laundry into the laundry basket. To prevent such shennigans, we make Little Kat fold his laundry downstairs and carry it up in small batches.

So today Little Kat proposed that we allow him to resume folding his clothes in his room. That would require a leap of faith on Momoko and my part. We told Litle Kat that if he could demonstrate integrity over the next month, we would let him bring the clothes upstairs.

It was late at night when the family meeting ended. I figured Little Kat would just do some chores and go to bed. Then Momoko discovered some contraband. Little Kat had done some laundry earlier today. Turns out he just threw the cleaned clothes in his closet to avoid folding them. Failure on day one. Looks like Little Kat is not going to earn our trust any time soon.