Hi Linda,
Thanks for reading and responding to the blog post on the Kids Hope website. It sounds like you are having some fun with your student! By this time in the year, I suspect that you have built quite good rapport with your student. Since your relationship is established, I would encourage you to challenge the student’s behavior if he is cheating. Ultimately, this will help to groom more favorable social skills as well as promote truthfulness. One of the best ways to confront this might be to mention, “I feel _________ when you __________. So _____________?” Or in other words, “I feel hurt or sad when you don’t follow the rules of the game. So could you please play by the rules?” Another possibility might be to challenge him to think about how he might feel in your shoes. You can either “play” this out by breaking the rules yourself, or ask him, “I wonder how you would feel if I set my cards up so that I could win?”