Sentences with phrase «honest conversations about»

In particular, they discussed their direct involvement with the Spokane Police Department's Youth and Police Initiative where officers and at - risk teens meet for a week to break down barriers and stereotypes and have honest conversations about issues facing youth and the role of law enforcement.

Couples need to have open and honest conversations about their intimate life and preferences.

Straight - forward, honest conversations about what goes on behind closed doors in your marriage.

Do have regular, open, honest conversations about possible next steps.

We've been trying to have honest conversations about our feelings and our fears, not to change each other but to grow closer regardless of the state of our sex life.

Specifically, physicians can have clear and honest conversations about sexual health issues in professional settings to model sexual communication skills, 95 perhaps helping families initiate these conversations.

If you and your child can have open and honest conversations about sexting or sending nudes, it gives you the chance to understand what sexting means to teenagers.

It's also promising to see we're beginning to see more honest conversations about alternative options to ownership.

We had open and honest conversations about income, credit status and debt history.

We could at least have honest conversations about what a publisher is looking for.

We must have honest conversations about our challenges and provide the resources and support for improvement.

District leaders valued the opportunity for open and honest conversations about the work in their own districts and returned to their communities reenergized, with new ideas and practical strategies for taking their family and community engagement to the next level.

Each community learned more about the neighboring towns and had honest conversations about their new identity as a whole.

Playing the role of «critical friend» by facilitating self - assessments, and honest conversations about what needed to create a system that works for children.

It's time for honest conversations about what that means, especially given the demand and need for more high - quality choices.

The first in a live video series called «Walking the Talk» — honest conversations about diversity, identity, and listening across our differences

And much too often, ideology and politics trump evidence and common sense, making it difficult to have honest conversations about the best ways to fix what is broken in education.

«The best education around gender violence and the most effective by far in working with men,» says Katz, «is having honest conversations about how cultural attitudes and beliefs about manhood... both contribute to perpetration and, in many cases, impede men's and young men's likelihood of challenging and interrupting abuse.»

We need more open and honest conversations about how to systematically, concretely, and effectively address such comments when we hear them in our school halls, meeting rooms, or street corners.

Since then, I've learned some things and had some really honest conversations about his history that put everything into perspective.

Opening up honest conversations about how people want to be cared for at the end of their lives is something we have to do, and that's why I support legislation that would allow people the freedom to make their own decisions about death and dying, guided by their own faith.»

Nobody really warned me about the not - so - fun parts, though, because encouraging women to breastfeed has become so pervasive that honest conversations about using your body to nourish another human being, have fallen by the wayside.

From 7 am to 11 pm, six days in a row, I was surrounded by people speaking different languages, talking about the big picture, and having open and honest conversations about inequities based on race and gender identity / expression.

The purpose of the event is to encourage pregnant women and new mums and dads to talk «Out Loud» and to have open and honest conversations about the joys and challenges of parenthood.

What would happen if we left it up to each individual couple to have open, honest conversations about whether they want to open their marriage, and if so, just how open they'd like it to be?

As a nanny employer, it's critical for you to be able to have open and honest conversations about the happenings of your child's life — including any discipline issues.

Holding open and honest conversations about sex with your teen is key to encouraging your teen to come to you.

Now that you mention it, how often do my wife and I really have honest conversations about our money?

Kate Bowler is an assistant professor in the school of divinity at Duke University, the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, and host of Everything Happens, a podcast featuring honest conversations about life's toughest challenges.

About having honest conversations about the harmful and very real side effects that living a promiscuous lifestyle can bring.

And aligning with Gensler, Narula said, there need to be more honest conversations about the fact that many emerging cryptocurrencies are actually securities.

Mike and I have been successful because we take the time to have brutally honest conversations about finances, goals and expectations, among other important issues.

We had an honest conversation about it, and he immediately said he did.

«This moment calls for compassionate people from across the political spectrum to have a difficult and honest conversation about comprehensive immigration reform.»

President Barack Obama and his first attorney general Eric Holder called for an honest conversation about race.

I encouraged the Church to engage in a compassionate, respectful and honest conversation about our attitude and response towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual (LGBT) people; a respectful dialogue that might lead to our churches becoming beacons of inclusion.

But this Valentine's Day, have an honest conversation about your spiritual lives.

Specifics — whether a plain language, line - by - line explanation of budgeting or an honest conversation about how money and marriage can be challenging — instead of a general message of «doing a better job managing our resources» would have provided a balm for my soul.

Having an honest conversation about your feelings in which you truly communicate your intentions may sound good, but it takes a lot of effort and authenticity.

The truth is that so many of us would love it if just one of us would start an honest conversation about how we parent when no one else is looking.

However, if they're being supportive and they're genuine about wanting to learn more, and you feel like facilitating that learning, it can be cool to have an open and honest conversation about breastfeeding.

If you have an open and honest conversation about it, she just might be able to accompany you and witness your little miracle.

These photographs were taken by the amazing Angela Carlyle The Perfect Push did this in an effort to #normalizebreastfeeding and start an honest conversation about hot - topics such as nursing in public, and those not often discussed, like extended breastfeeding and tandem nursing.

They aren't but at least you can have an honest conversation about what needs to change and why — unless you're goal is just to be sanctimonious.

The reason I was cheered by his speech was that there was an attempt to have a more honest conversation about the EU.

«We welcome @CynthiaNixon to the race and look forward to a healthy and honest conversation about how we restore the people's trust in the governor's office,» he said.

«Prohibition of marijuana is a policy that just hasn't worked, no matter how you look at it, and it's time to have an honest conversation about what we should do next,» Krueger said in a statement.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

«We have got to have an honest conversation about economic opportunity,» Stringer said today.

The event will feature medical, public health and human rights experts looking to offer an open and honest conversation about the effects of the virus in Africa and the current climate in our own communities, while providing facts about Ebola that can save lives.