Prime for Life

Welcome to Lovett’s 7th grade class or to The Lovett School as a new family!

For many years, Lovett has provided the Prime for Life for Parents course as a support for the values and expectations this community shares. Prime for Life is a prevention-focused alcohol and drug educational course, designed to help parents communicate effectively with their teens in a factual, non-threatening way long before a problem occurs. This course is required for a family to remain enrolled at Lovett.

While there are several other courses and activities at Lovett with similar sounding names, Prime for Life for Parents is the only required one. Please read the following information about the course carefully and send in your registration promptly to ensure your preferred choice. The registration form is posted as a pdf on the right side of this page. 

Basic Information

 

  • The Lovett School enthusiastically and strongly encourages both parents to take this course.  However, Lovett requires these classes for at least one parent of all 7th graders and at least one parent of all new incoming students in grades 8 and up. Parents who have taken the course at Lovett since April 1997 are not required to take it again. However, any parent is welcome to repeat the program or any portion of the program at no cost at any time. Some families find it easier to schedule the two parents attending two different series. That is certainly acceptable. Also, it is fine for a second parent to take the course in another year—that seems to work well for many families.
  • Make-up Classes: Because the material taught in each unit builds on the previous unit, it is necessary to take the program in sequence. Unit One is taught in both classes during the first week of teaching. Unit Two is taught in the second week of teaching. Unit Three is taught in the third week of teaching. While you will register for a specific day and time, if you find you cannot attend a particular session you may attend the other class during that week without notifying the instructor, in order to stay in sequence. However, the three units must be taken in sequential order.
  • Because the information presented is sequential, the same parent must attend all three units. Credit for the family’s requirement can be given only if one parent attends all three units. In contrast, it is fine for the second parent to only attend portions of the course. Many folks particularly enjoy Unit Three, where the focus is on communicating with our teen. In that session, we will practice putting the research and basic concepts from Units One and Two into real-life scenarios and will discuss some of the situations that may arise during the teen years. If a second parent cannot attend all three units, that person is most welcome to attend any of the units without notifying the instructor. And especially, attendance at Unit Three is wholeheartedly welcomed for the second parent or for any person who is significant is supporting the children (s) progression to adulthood.
  • Location: All programs are held in the Board Room on the fourth floor of the Fuqua Center, unless otherwise notified. Light refreshments will be provided.
  • You are encouraged to take the program at your earliest opportunity. Fall classes are usually under filled; try those first! Each year a few families encounter last-minute conflicts that arise in the spring and jeopardize their completion of the course.
  • Lateness policy: There is a grace period of 10 minutes, after which the doors are closed and you are asked not to attend that session. Out of consideration for participants who do arrive on time and a dedication that the program be presented intact, this policy became necessary. Please do not have an automobile accident or put yourself in any danger trying to arrive on time! We will work together to find another session or another series that you can attend. If a situation requires that you leave a session early, again, there is a 10-minute grace period. Any other circumstances will necessitate our working together to meet your needs while also honoring the integrity of the program.    
  • Registration confirmation/reminder postcard will be mailed back to you as soon as you register for a particular series of classes.
  • Registration deadline:September 3, 2011. Each series is limited to 15 participants. If your work or personal schedule requires a specific course, do register early.  
Dianne Hiltman
Prime for Life Certified Instructor, Parents and Under 21
Home: (404) 634-2642; Cell: (678) 468-9430

 

 

Headmaster Billy Peebles's Letter

 

The Lovett School policy concerning Prime for Life for Parents

In order to support a community that is oriented around commonly held, healthy and sacred values, The Lovett School will provide each family a free course about alcohol and drug education. Each family has this expectation stated as part of their enrollment contract.  

While we strongly encourage both parents from each family to take this course, at least one parent from each family is required to take the course. It is expected that attendance at the course will occur during the 7th grade year of the first child to reach that grade or the first year that a family is enrolled at Lovett if they enroll subsequent to the 7th grade year.   

Recognizing that unpreventable emergencies can arise and preclude a family from completing this requirement in the expected year, and wishing to make provision for such eventualities, a family, with permission of the Headmaster, may extend this requirement until the Fall semester of the following year. If the course is not completed by the Winter Holidays, the child(ren) cannot return to Lovett. We recommend that any family not completing the course in the expected year plan to purchase Tuition Reimbursement Insurance, in the case that enrollment is terminated after the Fall semester.
Board of Trustees, 1996