Conversation with my 10-year-old son this morning, while he was supposed to be doing his homework.

Son: Daddy, look at my eyebrows. (making an exaggerated “feminine” movement of his hand over his face with a pencil) I scooped them up like girls do.

Daddy: Do your homework.

Son: But really, Daddy! Look!

Daddy: Those aren’t your eyebrows.

Son: Oh, yeah! They’re my eyelids.

Daddy (wincing): Mama was right. You have some holes in your English.

Son: I’m a Japanese kid, dude!

Daddy: Sure, but they’re not eyebrows. Or eyelids.

Son (cackling): They’re eyelidbrows!

Daddy: Homework.