Over 300 researchers from the National Institutes of Health have published a letter rebuking its director and the Trump administration for deep, politically motivated cuts to research funding, as well as disrupting global collaboration, undermining scientific review processes, and laying off critical NIH staff.
“We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources,” the letter states, linking to independent news reports on the harms of NIH trials being halted and that the administration’s cuts to the agency have cost, rather than saved, taxpayer money. Since January, the Trump administration has terminated 2,100 NIH research grants totaling around $9.5 billion and $2.6 billion in contracts, the letter notes. The researchers also accuse the administration of creating “a culture of fear and suppression” among federal researchers.
The letter describes the researchers’ action as “dissent” from the administration’s policies, quoting NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his congressional confirmation hearing as saying, “Dissent is the very essence of science.”
A salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest, federal health officials said Saturday.
The August Egg Company recalled about 1.7 million brown organic and brown cage-free egg varieties distributed to grocery stores between February and May because of the potential for salmonella, according to a posted announcement Friday on the Food and Drug Administration’s website.
At least 79 people in seven states have gotten a strain of salmonella that was linked to the eggs, and 21 people have been hospitalized. the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The recall covers Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and Wyoming. A list of brands and plant codes or Julian dates can be found on the FDA and CDC websites.
Symptoms of salmonella poisoning include diarrhea, fever, severe vomiting, dehydration and stomach cramps. Most people who get sick recover within a week.
Infections can be severe in young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems, who may require hospitalization.
The CDC advises people to throw away recalled eggs or return them to the store where they were purchased. Consumers should also wash and disinfect any surfaces that came in contact with the eggs.
“Osteopenia” is not a word I’d ever heard three months ago. And then, just like that, it was everywhere—on the results of my first bone-density, or DEXA, scan, and on the lips of most of the friends of a certain age who, when I mentioned the diagnosis, responded with, “I have that, too!”
Turns out that low bone density, by which osteopenia is interchangeably referred, is pretty common: An estimated 40 million Americans have the condition, with about one-third of adults older than 50 having some degree of bone density loss.
What is osteopenia, or low bone density?
It is a step below—and what sometimes precedes—osteoporosis, which causes bones to become weak, brittle, and more prone to fractures. It occurs when bone, which is a living tissue that is constantly lost and replaced, is only lost, without the rate of replacement able to keep up.
So how worried should people with the diagnosis be? And is there any way to halt or reverse it? Read on for everything you need to know about osteopenia.
Low bone density, explained
Osteopenia is asymptomatic, so it takes a bone-mineral density test—which determines your bone density, as higher mineral concentration makes bones more dense—to know if you’ve got it. The test is done through the super quick and painless DEXA scan, which uses radiation to measure how much calcium and other minerals are present.
Results for patients over 50 come in the form of a T-score, which is the difference between your bone mineral density and 0—the bone mineral density of a healthy young adult. The lower your T-score, the higher your risk of bone fracture. So if your score is:
1 or higher, your bones are healthy.
1 to –2.5, you have osteopenia, or low bone mineral density.
2.5 or lower, you might have osteoporosis.
The risk of broken bones increases by 1.5 to 2 times with each 1-point drop in the T-score.
But it’s a continuum, and no single T-score gives the whole story, says Dr. Andrea Singer, chief medical officer of the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation and a Georgetown University Hospital internist specializing in bone health.
“There’s no absolute number or cut-off that guarantees somebody will fracture, although we know that the lower the bone density, the greater the risk for fracture,” Singer tells Fortune. “There’s also no bone density that renders somebody safe from fracture. The better the bone density, generally, the lower the fracture risk. But there are many other things that come into play in addition to bone density.”
You’ve been told you have osteopenia. Now what?
“What one would suggest we do about it really depends on not only looking at the bone density, but looking at the individual patient and what other risk factors they may have,” Singer says, explaining that such individual factors are used to assess one’s overall risk for fracture, often done through a FRAX score, which is based on various lifestyle factors and the T-score.
“The reason we care about these numbers, and the reason we treat people who are at high risk, is to prevent fractures, which can be life altering events,” she explains. “Our goal is to keep people independent, mobile, doing all of the things we want to do. And with most diseases, it’s easier to prevent things than to try to reverse things.”
Risk factors to take into account when being assessed for bone-loss treatment, according to the Cleveland Clinic, include:
A recently broken bone
Being over 50
Being a woman—especially if you’re postmenopausal.
If you have a family history of osteoporosis
If you are prone to falls
If you are naturally thin or have a smaller frame
Being a smoker or user of tobacco products
Having an endocrine disorder, gastrointestinal disease, or autoimmune or blood disorder
If you take certain medications, including diuretics, corticosteroids, and hormone therapy for cancer
If you are deficient in vitamin D, don’t get enough exercise, or drink alcohol regularly
There is no one physician specialty that “owns” osteopenia or osteoporosis, Singer says, and is something that could be treated by a primary care physician, internist, family medicine practitioner, OB/GYN, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, and some orthopedists.
Whichever doctor you choose, sit down with them and go over your test results, medical history and family history, she suggests, as there is “no one-size-fits-all” approach to treatment. The many options, depending on one’s individual needs, range from lifestyle changes to medications, and include:
Physical activity, especially weight-bearing exercises that put stress on bones, thereby helping to build and maintain density
Vitamin and mineral supplements, especially calcium and vitamin D
A healthy eating plan including foods with vitamins and minerals to strengthen bones such as dairy and green, leafy vegetables; working with a nutritionist can help with the plan
Prescribed medications, especially if you’ve already broken a bone. Options include bisphosphonates (such as Fosomax or Actonel), which slow the body’s natural process of bone loss; hormone replacement therapy; Teriparatide, which, taken as a shot beneath the skin, mimics a hormone that helps you make new bone tissue; and Raloxifene, which is a daily pill.
It’s never too early to worry about bone health
“We should be thinking about bone health in childhood and even the teen years,” says Singer, “because that’s when people accrue most of their bone and reach a peak bone density.”
About 90% of bone density is accrued by one’s early 20s, with peak bone density, for most, coming around the age of 30.
The best way to not lose that mineral-rich density, she says, is by making sure kids and adolescents are eating a healthy diet, staying active, and not smoking or drinking—all of which of course bring benefits beyond bone density, from heart health to cancer prevention.
Into adulthood, Singer adds, “It’s important for people to pay attention and make sure that they have a well balanced diet,” including adequate calcium and vitamin D as well as protein for muscle strength.
“At every stage along the way, it’s important—but especially as we’re approaching menopause and that menopausal transition—to kind of know where you are and take stock of things,” she says. “It means, at the very least, discussing your risk factors with your clinician.”
The latest trend making the rounds across TikTok and Instagram is known as “Japanese walking,” and one creator claims that in just 30 minutes, you’ll get 10 times the benefits of hitting 10,000 steps a day.
What is ‘Japanese walking’?
The workout originates from a 2007 study based in Japan where 246 participants were divided into three groups: no walking, moderate-intensity continuous walking (walking at a moderate effort and taking at least 8,000 steps per day four or more days per week), and high-intensity interval walking.
The third group, doing the high-intensity intervals, were instructed to walk slowly for three minutes, then walk quickly at a hard effort for three minutes, and repeat five or more times for four or more days per week. The researchers discovered that this group experienced noticeable improvements in strength, endurance, and decreased blood pressure, more so than the moderate-intensity continuous walking group. This workout is what’s now become known as “Japanese walking.”
The benefits of interval walking
Another study from 2018 observed participants who did this exact walking workout over the course of 10 years. They found that those who kept up with the workout for the duration of the study experienced a 20% improvement in their leg strength, and a 40% improvement in their peak exercise capacity.
The researchers concluded that those participants had protected against age-associated declines in physical fitness. Even those who weren’t able to maintain the workout for the full 10 years had those improvements partially preserved.
Since you’re getting your heart rate up during the harder walking intervals, your body gets the benefit of more moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity each week for most adults, or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity—and pushing the walking pace every so often could help you reach that target.
For the higher-intensity intervals, your heart rate should be elevated to the point where you’re just starting to feel out of breath, but not at your maximum effort. The researchers consider this 70% of your max effort capability.
Meanwhile, the lower-intensity walking should be an easy effort, where talking is still comfortable.
Alternate walking at each intensity for three minutes until you reach 30 minutes. Incorporate this workout in your routine four times per week.
Geier and his father, Mark Geier, who died in March, are known for peddling the thoroughly debunked falsehood that vaccines cause autism, publishing a long list of dubious articles in low-quality journals that push the idea. In particular, the two have blamed the mercury-containing vaccine preservative, thimerosal, despite numerousstudiesfinding no link. Thimerosal was largely abandoned from vaccine formulations in 2001 out of an abundance of caution.
In 2011, an investigation by the Maryland State Board of Physicians found that the Geiers were misdiagnosing autistic children and treating them with potent hormone therapies in a treatment they dubbed the “Lupron Protocol.” Mark Geier was stripped of his medical license. David Geier, who has no medical or scientific background and holds only a bachelor’s degree, was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license.
Anecdotes abound about “Ozempic babies”—when women wound up with unplanned pregnancies while taking both birth-control and the popular GLP-1 drugs for diabetes or weight loss.
But today marks the first official agency warning about the possibility of these drugs—specifically Mounjaro—decreasing the effectiveness of oral contraceptives.
“Women taking popular medicines for weight loss and diabetes, sometimes referred to as ‘skinny jabs,’ are being reminded to use effective contraception while taking these medicines and, in some cases, for up to two months between stopping the medicine and trying to get pregnant,” warns the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)—akin to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
It goes on to specify that “Mounjaro may reduce the effectiveness of oral contraceptives in those who are overweight. Therefore, those taking Mounjaro who are overweight and are using an oral form of contraception are advised to also use a non-oral form of contraception. This only applies to those taking Mounjaro and is especially important for the four weeks after starting Mounjaro and after any dose increase.”
The MHRA characterized its announcement as a “reminder,” as the decreased effectiveness of birth control pills is already one of several known risks included in Mounjaro’s package inserts, which includes the following warning with its product:
“If you take birth control pills by mouth, talk to your healthcare provider before you use Mounjaro. Birth control pills may not work as well while using Mounjaro. Your healthcare provider may recommend another type of birth control for 4 weeks after you start Mounjaro and for 4 weeks after each increase in your dose of Mounjaro.”
A spokesperson for Eli Lilly, the maker of Mounjaro, emailed the following statement to Fortune: “Patient safety is Lilly’s top priority, and we actively engage in monitoring, evaluating, and reporting safetyinformation for all our medicines. The Summary of Product Characteristics for Mounjaro (tirzepatide) explains that tirzepatide ‘has the potential to impact the rate of absorption of concomitantly administered oral medicinal products’ and that the impact ‘is most pronounced at the time of tirzepatide treatment initiation.’ The tirzepatide Patient Information Leaflet advises that if you are pregnant, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor for advice before using this medicine.”
While Ozempic and Wegovy contain semaglutide and work by mimicking a hormone called GLP-1 that triggers an increase in the production of insulin, Mounjaro contains the active ingredient tirzepatide, and also acts on a second hormone involved in appetite and blood sugar control.
The MHRA warning calls out Mounjaro, specifically, regarding the possible disruption of birth control, but then goes on to remind women that none of the drugs should be taken during pregnancy, as the effects on a fetus are unknown.
“These medicines must not be taken during pregnancy, while trying to get pregnant, or during breastfeeding,” reads the warning. “Anyone who gets pregnant while using them should speak to their healthcare professional and stop the medicine as soon as possible. This is because there is not enough safety data to know whether taking the medicine could cause harm to the baby.”
Today’s warning was notable, said ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula on Good Morning America, because it marks “the first time we’re really seeing a regulatory agency speaking out about this.” But, she added, “we’ve heard talk about this particularly on social media and online in this country women dubbing them ‘Ozempic babies.’”
Narula explained theories that the decreased effectiveness of birth control while taking any of these drugs is due to two factors: One, the fact that being obese or overweight, or having syndromes like PCOS can decrease your fertility, and that, with these drugs inducing weight loss, “you’re essentially changing your menstrual cycle, your ovulation, and increasing your chances of getting pregnant.”
The second issue, she explains, is that oral contraceptives work by getting absorbed into our body—but that GLP-1s work “by changing our gut motility,” which is how food and waste moves through the body, and can also sometimes cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. “So you can put those two together and see how the GLP drugs changing your gut motility and potentially affecting absorption of oral contraceptive pills could cause you to also see an increase in fertility,” Narula said.
Regarding the other part of the warning, that the drugs should not be taken during pregnancy and should be stopped two months before attempting to conceive, she said, “We don’t study pregnant women in trials, it’s not considered safe. But what we do know from animal studies is that there can be some birth defects, growth restriction, even miscarriage.”
A growing number of executives are opting out of tropical beach vacations and spending their PTO in places that promise to help optimize their health and longevity. Wellness tourism is one of the fastest-growing areas within the travel sector, surpassing $1 trillion last year, and projected to have an annual growth rate of over 16%, according to the Global Wellness Institute.
Meeting the growing demand means “we’re reinventing ourselves every day,” says Mark Rivers, CEO of the OG wellness resort Canyon Ranch.
“For years, we could sit back, and [guests] would come to us because we were one of the few in the space,” Rivers tells Fortune. “But today, we know that guests are interested in longevity. We know they’re interested in menopause, and we know they’re interested in burnout and resilience.”
In 1979, when Canyon Ranch first opened, it called itself a “fitness resort,” Rivers says. Four decades later, fitness is just one piece of the puzzle. The wellness leader, which operates two main resorts in Lenox, Mass., and Tucson, Ariz., along with several day spas—including the largest in North America at the Venetian in Las Vegas—is in development on its first ground-up build in Austin, Texas.
Fortune spoke with Rivers about how Canyon Ranch is catering its properties and programming to meet the needs of modern-day executives.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
How is Canyon Ranch adapting its offerings to meet the specific needs of today’s executive traveler?
Clearly, in the business and executive space, the alpha executives, male and female alike, are keenly focused on their own health and well-being. Today, it’s a source of information seeking and expertise seeking. Many of the alpha executives have the means and the desire to live longer or live healthier longer, myself included.
Sometimes I refer to us as a wellness hospitality company, and sometimes I refer to us as a wellness experience company. We’re probably both.
Some entrepreneurs might figure out how to do a DEXA scan in a shopping mall without a doctor and without integrative medicine. We kind of figure out how to make it all part of an integrative approach to sort of help tackle your body, mind, and spirit.
It’s both lifespan and health span. Lifespan is how long you live. Health span is how long you live in good health. Hitting 103 but spending the last 10 years in a chair is not a win for me. I just want to live my healthiest, best life as long as I possibly can. I’m a melting ice cube, right? So executives in the business world today have the means and the interest because wellness is at the intersection of almost every major industry in our country.
Which programs appeal to executives the most?
Our Longevity8 program, in particular, has become a hotspot for executives in corporate America. We do a cohort every month, with people, whether an executive from Nvidia or a founder of an AI program, or CEOs and their spouses.
Last year, we launched the program, which is a four-day program for people to come to our Tucson property only, and dive into the eight principles of longevity that we see. It’s not just nutrition. It’s not just sleep, in our view. It’s eight different things, including the outdoors, including spiritual wellness, including your mental health, including your flexibility, and your movement.
Are there any other trends that are top of mind regarding how high-performing professionals and executives are approaching their wellness today?
We’re about to launch a burnout and resilience program. In particular, we’re seeing a lot of discussion around that and with programs for women’s wellness.
Women make up 60% of our customer base, so being able to go out specifically to a female audience of corporate executives makes this really distinctive and really unique.
In what ways are you targeting wellness for women executives?
We have leaned in heavily, not just around longevity, but within the context of longevity, around menopause, perimenopause, and postpartum hormonal therapy. To lead our whole program around health and performance, we just brought in a female doctor. That position has typically been male. For the Longevity8 program, we actually have an upcoming cohort that’s women only, and so we are actually modifying some of the programming and some of the services and consultation specifically around women’s health … [it’s not just] the Tech Bros in t-shirts.
You mentioned a new program on burnout. Are leaders coming together and using travel to talk about issues around burnout and stress?
We see companies that are trying to be proactive about [burnout], so by the time you are stressed out, and then basically have to tap out, that’s almost too late. Well, there are treatments and processes to try to embrace and help people reset.
I have stress myself. I’m an alpha executive in my own right, and it affects my sleep for sure, and it affects my personality traits at times, and how I deal with people impacts my emotions and my mental health. The question is, what can I do proactively to come out with a better version of myself? Those are areas that I think we can help with. I’ve seen it myself firsthand. I’m a 21st-century executive who now journals. I’m a 21st-century executive who seeks meditation and practices yoga on occasion and uses walking and hiking to help me digitally detox or reset.
Are you seeing a shift in how luxury consumers define “value” in wellness and travel experiences?
What people are looking for today is information, rituals and practices, and baselines that can be tracked. Data is available and is important.
We want to send our guests home with something meaningful to change their lifestyle, and data that can help them measure, monitor, and set objectives. We want to send you home with practices, information, and guidance.
Canyon Ranch’s resort in Tucson, Ariz.
Courtesy of Canyon Ranch
We want to go on travel experiences that are unforgettable, that are memorable, that inspire us, that live with us forever. I think it’s the same thing on anybody’s wellness journey. And when they visit us at Canyon Ranch, it’s like we want to send you home inspired and with information to help you change your life for the better.
And it’s the human piece. We’re better when we connect with other humans. We’re better when we build lifelong relationships. Wellness is the ultimate human endeavor, and to be able to go on that path with other humans who are either our experts, our friends, or our community, that’s the game changer in a world that’s dominated by what’s the latest app.
When you think about the future of Canyon Ranch, and wellness travel for professionals, what do you see in the next five to 10 years?
I see people who have less and less time to spend. We’re seeing people who stay for shorter durations. I think people continue to be very hungry for information, very hungry for experiences that they can’t otherwise access.
All of us in the wellness industry have to weave our way through the latest technology. What’s real, what’s a fad, and what’s evidence-based? So we continue to work our way through that every day. I think we’re also going to continue to see that one-two punch of human connection and expertise alongside technology. It’s not just one or the other. It’s not just going to your doctor physically for your checkup. It’s also not just doing all of your health with your thumb on your iPhone.
If every Fortune 500 CEO took one Canyon Ranch experience tomorrow, which would you recommend and why?
I think for both men and women alike, our Longevity8 program is the most thorough and the most thoughtful that there is. There are 18 one-on-one consults, testing against 200 biomarkers, and eight different practices of longevity. As a woman executive in particular, our M/Power program is around perimenopause and menopause.
We try to make each of these practices less of a drive-by and more of a deep dive.
Under the Trump administration, the Food and Drug Administration is eagerly embracing artificial intelligence tools that staff members are reportedly calling rushed, buggy, overhyped, and inaccurate.
On Monday, the FDA publicly announced the agency-wide rollout of a large language model (LLM) called Elsa, which is intended to help FDA employees—”from scientific reviewers to investigators.” The FDA said the generative AI is already being used to “accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten the time needed for scientific evaluations, and identify high-priority inspection targets.”
“It can summarize adverse events to support safety profile assessments, perform faster label comparisons, and generate code to help develop databases for nonclinical applications,” the announcement promised.
By casting excess embryos as ‘little frozen orphans’, these programs appeal to infertile US Christians – and push an alarming view of personhood
As soon as they arrived home, Tyler, seven, and Jayden, three, rushed to a small green tent perched on the living room table and pressed their faces against its mesh windows. Inside, several gray cocoons hung immobile as the boys’ eyes eagerly scanned them for the slightest sign of movement. “We’re waiting for butterflies to emerge,” explained their mother, Alana Lisano. “It’s our little biology experiment.”
Within seconds, the boys were off to play with their cars, having no patience for such waiting. But Tyler and Jayden, Alana told me, were like those butterflies not so long ago, suspended in a different kind of stasis for two decades.
Silence is golden—except when it’s used as punishment, parenting experts warn.
“If the purpose of the silence is to punish or distance or prove a point to the kid, or if it’s an attempt at some type of behavior modification, then no, that probably isn’t the best approach,” says Kier Gaines, licensed therapist, father, and parenting influencer.
Giving your kid the silent treatment when you’re angry about something, adds adolescent psychologist Barbara Greenberg, “is one of the worst types of punishment, because it is basically telling your kid, ‘I’m totally dismissing you. You’re not even worth talking to or looking at,’ and it induces so much shame.”
Not to mention, she adds, what it teaches your child: “If there’s any conflict with anyone in life, you just get rid of them.”
Below, everything you need to know about why communication—not silence—is the most compassionate, instructional path to take when you’re angry with your kid.
Your child may not understand why you’re icing them
“When you punish the kids with silence, you kind of overestimate that they’ll understand the point of the silence,” says Gaines, explaining that, by not communicating clearly, your child is left to figure out your behavior on their own. “So they are most likely not going to get the lesson you’re trying to teach.”
And sometimes when kids are acting in a way that enrages you—being “prickly or obtuse or just mean little money-grubbers”— it’s because they “desperately need closeness.”
Meeting that need with silence, he says, offers the opposite: distance. “And distance, in the mind of a child, is a hurtful thing to endure,” Gaines says.
If you don’t communicate, you won’t learn what’s going on with your kid
Sure, your child’s not being clear and direct about wanting closeness when they make a mess and slam their door. But you, as an adult, need to try clear communication, not silence.
“Give the kid a lot of room to explain things, because it’s important to understand the child’s motive for doing something that’s problematic,” says Greenberg.
That open back-and-forth will not only help you to understand what’s going on with your child, but give your child a chance to reflect on their behavior.
“Sometimes we just give them consequences but don’t let them think about it,” she says. Having a discussion can give you both a chance to process.
Silent treatment does not model healthy behavior
Just as problematic as the results of freezing your child out in the moment are the lessons he or she will take from your behavior.
“It teaches them not only to be conflict-avoidant, but makes them conflict-terrified,” says Greenberg, “and it makes them afraid to upset anybody, perhaps also teaching them to communicate less.”
When your kids become adults navigating their own challenges and relationships, says Gaines, they are likely to default to what’s most familiar, or what they received as a kid. If that is to give the silent treatment when there’s a conflict, “it can make them an adult who thinks that no response is a response,” he says. “But it’s not a response. You have no idea what that person means by the silence.”
It could all have the effect of turning a child into an adult who has a hard time saying the important and uncomfortable things—”You hurt my feelings,” “This is uncomfortable,” “I don’t really like this,” “I’m not okay,” he says.
And being that way, Gaines adds, “Can turn someone into a spiteful and regretful person who holds people to standards that they never communicate—and then punishes them when they don’t meet those expectations.”
The one acceptable use of silence
“If you are ignoring your child because you need to gather your thoughts or because they’ve just said something very hurtful or provocative, and your initial reaction is that you want to let something simmer for a little bit before you serve it, I think that’s okay,” says Gaines. Just be clear about needing to take that beat, and that you’ll be able to speak to them shortly.
Sometimes when his 3-year-old daughter throws tantrums, for example, he’ll sit with her a bit before saying, “‘Baby, I love you so much, but I can’t do this right now,’ and I’ll walk away and ignore the tantrum. But I don’t just ignore her for the sake of ignoring her.”
Because parents do have a right to be angry and upset, says Greenberg. “If you feel overwhelmed by it, take a step back,” she says. “Then explain what’s upsetting and give the child a chance to talk, because sometimes it’s a real misunderstanding.”
What to do instead of silent treatment when you’re angry
A much better approach, says Gaines, is to let down your parental “superhero facade” and be open when something makes you angry or sad. Instead, speak to them about what upset you.
“Try, ‘Hey, baby, when you said that, it really hurt my feelings, and I just need some time to think about the way I feel about that.’ You’re saying the thing out loud, and your child doesn’t have to wonder why you’re being silent.”
When you do that, not only do you model healthy emotional processing, you also let them in. “You communicate and you tell them what’s going on, so they don’t have to wonder or guess, because in a child’s mind, they default to, ‘oh, it’s my fault.’ They may still feel that way,” Gaines says, “but the difference is, you communicated clearly what was going on.”
Bottom line, says Greenberg: “If you want to teach your child something, you talk to them. If you feel you really need to punish and shame your kid, you freeze them out.”
