My wife and I spent the ninety minutes after dinner helping our kids with their homework. Our 12-year-old daughter labored over subtracting fractions by first converting them to decimals and performing long division, a task that I first demonstrated, then wondered about, then completed by saying “Ask your mother” and returning to my reading. Our 8-year-old son’s homework involved rounding numbers to their nearest hundred.

Wife:  “Does he know how to round?”

Me:  “More or less.”

I give her this:   She laughed, and it even seemed genuine.

Later,  she and I were discussing the degree to which he understands sarcasm.

Him:  “I understand sarcasm just fine, Dad.”

Me:  “You’re just saying that.”

Him:  “My head hurts.”

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