Sentences with phrase «crankiness by»

So as you switch to one nap, try to ease her morning crankiness by establishing «quiet time,» during which you read or listen to soft music, says George J. Cohen, M.D., a pediatrician and author of American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Sleep: Birth Through Adolescence.

Not exact matches

Borderland insanity, crankiness, insane temperament, loss of mental balance, psychopathic degeneration (to use a few of the many synonyms by which it has been called), has certain peculiarities and liabilities which, when combined with a superior quality of intellect in an individual, make it more probable that he will make his mark and affect his age, than if his temperament were less neurotic.

There is of course no special affinity between crankiness as such and superior intellect, (Superior intellect, as Professor Bain has admirably shown, seems to consist in nothing so much as in a large development of the faculty of association by similarity.)

Even those of us who get annoyed when our kids are offered junk food by others might admit to engaging in some «over-snacking» ourselves, such as always carrying around a packaged snack (healthy or otherwise) to ward off crankiness or boredom — but not necessarily hunger — when we're out with our kids.

Because this baby was only five months old and still nursing, I didn't have high hopes for her, but she is now sleeping and napping well, and most of her daytime crankiness and excessive clinginess (which I now realize was caused by tiredness) has gone away.

Biting might be ascribed to crankiness, which is also a symptom associated with teething, but in fact, putting pressure on sore gums from the outside equalizes the pressure exerted by the rising tooth and numbs the pain — until the outside pressure stops.

In screenwriter David Koepp's Cold War story, Jones — assisted, and then betrayed, by Ray Winstone's bland sidekick Mac, and later accompanied by John Hurt's wacko Professor Oxley — travels from America to the jungles of Peru in search of the titular item wearing the same furrowed brow and grimace, nearly all the self - deprecating humor and joy and diversity of emotion that made him a compelling spelunker replaced by sourpuss crankiness.

By getting the proper amount of sleep, you can eliminate some elements of crankiness.