The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

The message sent is not always the message received.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.