meh

my tutor kid lied to me today. last week, i assigned him several pages of math homework and when i looked over his answers today, i had a feeling that he had copied the answers from the back of the workbook. instead of accusing him of cheating, i asked him how he knew the answers to the problems without doing any of the work, and he replied, "i did them in my head." pfft -.- i chose one of the homework questions and asked him to solve it. he stared at the problem for a good minute and gave an answer. naturally, it was the wrong answer. and yet, on his paper, the right answer was neatly written. and so, i started saying, "hmm.. you know, i feel like you copied the answers from --" he knew he got caught and immediately cut me off in mid-sentence, "you're right. i did. i'm sorry. i'm sorry." and he really meant it.

the feeling of being lied to.. it isn't a good feeling. i didn't really care if he cheated on his homework but i was really disappointed that he was lying to me about it.  it made me sad, and i guess i'm still a little bit sad about it since i'm blogging about it after it had happened like, seven hours ago, haha. it hurts. is that weird? he's not even my own flesh and blood, but it hurts. i guess i got a small glimpse of how moms feel when their child lies to them.

... meh.