Harold is not always the best role model, but children love him anyway. As children progress through the upper primary grades, they see programs innovatively designed to challenge their abilities to understand the complex workings of the human body and how to better take care of themselves. As the class watches while orbiting Conformatron, the mad Dr. Torpid tries to bring them down to Conformatron to make them the same as everybody else. Eventually our brave 3rd graders make it safely back to Earth having learned that each one of them is special and that being the same as others is not always good. More importantly, they learn that thinking for themselves and having the ability to make choices in life should not be taken for granted.
Drugs can take away that freedom to think and act as an individual.
By fifth and sixth grades, programs are designed to build skills and train young people how to resist peer pressures to use drugs as well as looking at the physiological consequences of drug use. In seventh and eighth grade programs issues including violence, AIDS, and teen pregnancy prevention may be addressed as optional programs. Other programs include parents' and workplace programs. Life Education Centers operate in over 5 different countries seeing well over 1.5 million children annually. While most centers are mobile units, some are fixed centers where children are bused from neighboring communities.