For a local student struggling with her sexuality, it might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the message that her community will always have a place for her.
But allowing your children to worry openly, in limited doses, can be helpful.
Ask helpful, reasonable questions and openly receive the friendly answers.
Some smart commentary after your announcement noted how helpful it could be that the first openly gay major-league athlete is also black, because young gay black men can't look around and see as many prominent openly gay black men as openly gay white men.
Some were openly supportive of civil rights and many were quietly helpful - for example, by making financial contributions to civil rights organizations.
But so far he has little to show for it, which has prompted a discussion inside the White House about whether it would be helpful, or counterproductive, to have him talk more openly about military options.
(036) Being able to be honest in a supportive and non-judgemental interaction was helpful: "No one had ever spoken to her openly before and it was the first time she was able to be completely honest about everything.
She hesitated because her brother Martin hated Sauerwald, ironically, because he had been helpful when Martin was rash enough to criticise the Nazis openly.
For the most part, this is helpful; Falls's script is tighter and clearer than O'Neill's, more openly erotic, and less biased against the character of Abbie (Carla Gugino), the new bride whom Ephraim brings home, and whom Eben takes to and against from the first.
Clarity about the diagnosis and its implications may be helpful as an aid to self-management, but there may be negative implications to this which need to be openly discussed.
