Furthermore, it is now clear that all
kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first
few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first
few months
of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability»
of the crying, and
of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first
few months is a reflection
of the organization
of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «
signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion
of infants that have evidence
of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence
of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»
It only took a
few lazy Google searches to find out exactly why: blue light (the
kind of light emitted by devices like computers, cell phones and iPads) suppresses melatonin, a.k.a. the handy dandy hormone that regulates your circadian rhythm and
signals to your body that it's time to go the eff to sleep.
More than a
few eyebrows were raised when School Board member - elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to
signal support for some
kind of a test - based pay system to attract and keep good teachers in LA classrooms.
Knowing a book comes from an established company with a long list
of previously - published titles that book readers are familiar with is the
kind of signal people need to be persuaded to part with a
few additional bucks for an otherwise unknown author.