Michelle Woo

  • Make A ‘Homework Mat’ For Your Kid

    One thing I don’t like about homework for young kids is the fact that after they’ve just spent a whole day sitting at a desk at school, we direct them to another desk at home. It’s inhibiting. Their bodies are wiggly and restless and begging to move.


  • For Kids Who Hate Bibs, Use A Black T-Shirt

    My daughter never had a problem wearing bibs — in fact, I always considered the ones with the food-catching pockets to be the breakthrough invention of the century. (A harried-parent hack that I heard from “a friend”: On mornings when you’re racing out the door, pour some Cheerios into the pocket and let your kid…


  • Parents: Organise Your To-do List By ‘Time Pockets’

    If you’re home with young children and have work to do, I’m sorry. This is hard. There’s no denying that. You’ll have use the “in-between” moments — usually nap times or quiet times — which are never long enough, but alas, they’re what you have available.


  • Why Your Kid Should Make Things That Are Temporary

    You may have read about the Tibetan monks who spend hours creating impossibly intricate mandalas out of tiny grains of sand, only to mess it all up as soon as they finish as a symbol of the ephemeral nature of all things. When I learned of this, I gasped in horror. All that work. Gone.