: About Me

I am a Stay-at-Home-Mum who writes mainly about motherhood, sports and fitness, fiction, professional blogging and life in general.  My current area of interest is early childhood development.

Writing Credentials: Expert Author on Ezine Articles (http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Shen-Li_Lee), currently undertaking the Comprehensive Creative Writing Course at the Writer's Bureau.

Professional Qualifications: Dentist

Sports passions: Rock climbing, running, skiing, and hiking.

Former Companies: Dental Health Services Victoria, 3M ESPE, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Colgate-Palmolive.

Current interests: writing, reading, computers, personal development, how the brain works, early childhood development, psychology of success, parenting.

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing. I've discovered there is always something I don't know.

My parents always told me ...

Give and take

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer

My favorite memory ...

Watching my babies while they sleep

Why I write ...

To share what I have learned, to articulate the thoughts in my mind, to express the emotions I feel and immortalise them like a photograph does a moment in time, and because I love words.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading "Quantum Speed Reading", watching "Little Britain", and listening to "Mozart"

My first job ...

Dentist

My best moment ...

Red-pointing "Pear" (achieving my first grade 7A in rock climbing)

My inspiration ...

My sons

Parenting & Pregnancy > Baby Developmental Stages Can babies be spoiled by being held all the time?

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"Fruits spoil, babies don't." It is a commonly held misconception that babies who are held constantly and frequently will be spoiled and will expect to be held all the time.  Yet this is probably one of the biggest fallacies new parents will be told as they begin their parenting career.  Not only can babies not be spoiled by being held all the time, babies need frequent touch and handling to thrive.  Why Babies Cannot be Spoiled The brain consists of three parts - the reptilian brain, the mammalian brain, and the higher brain.  When a baby is born, only the reptilian br...

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Writing:

• Creative Writing Bronze
• 2Writing Contest Winner
• Dentist
• Marketplace Premier Writer
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• Helium Charter Member