Michelle Woo

  • Stop Punishing Your Kid’s Good Behaviour

    Sometimes, I come across parenting advice that makes me uncomfortable, and that’s because I feel exposed. This happened when I read a Tumblr post by an author who goes by Olofa. The title: “Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.”


  • How To Get A Break From Your Kids While On Holiday

    As meteorologist Paul Goodloe mused to us about family travel: “If you include the kids, it’s no longer a holiday — we just call that a trip.” Don’t get us wrong: Traversing the world with your children can be a formative experience in which lifelong memories are made. It can also be rather suffocating (flashback…


  • How To Re-Learn Maths Like A Kindergartner

    If you have a kid in school, you’ve probably noticed that their maths homework looks different than yours did back in the day. You may have moaned about it — “What’s with all the crazy steps? These equations took me seconds to answer in Mrs. Winkleman’s fourth-grade class!” Hey, I’m not here to debate the…