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🪁 Electives and pathways

Electives are short courses off the main path, like field trips. Anyone can take them, enrolled in the Academy or not, and they never change your Academy lessons or gates.

For littles

Electives are little extra classes, like a field trip. Finish one and you get a gold star and a certificate!

Take an elective​

  1. Open Electives from the sidebar (or from the Course catalog).
  2. Pick a course and choose Start course.
  3. Lessons work like Academy lessons: teaching, a story, an activity and a real-life mission. Missions work whether you have a caregiver or not.
  4. When every lesson is done, you get one gold star and a certificate you can print.

You can open any lesson again whenever you like.

Little courses​

Taken as a little, with Miss Honeydew. Five or six lessons each.

  • Shapes and Sorting: shape sorters, matching, and spotting the one that's different.
  • Counting Fingers and Toes: one to ten with rhymes.
  • Big and Little, Up and Down: opposites, with toys, blocks and your own body.
  • Sensory Bin Explorers: textures, safe materials and happy mess.
  • Nursery Rhyme Club: a new rhyme each week, with the actions.
  • Baby Yoga and Stretches: gentle, play-based stretching on the mat.
  • Teddy Bear Picnic: manners and sharing, practiced with your stuffies.
  • Dinosaur Days: roaring, stomping, and dino names made simple.
  • Mirror Play: funny faces and naming your body parts.
  • Special Days: birthdays, holidays, snow days and sick days at every stage.

Grown-up courses​

For littles and caregivers, adult to adult. Eight to ten lessons each.

  • Building a Dynamic from Scratch: values, roles, limits and a written agreement.
  • Negotiating Your First Contract: what goes in it, review dates, and exits.
  • Long-Distance Caregiving: remote check-ins, care packages and time zones.
  • Coming Out as ABDL: telling a partner, friends or a therapist.
  • Polyamory and Multiple Caregivers: family structures, roles and fairness.
  • Travel and Vacations as a Little: airports, hotels, packing and discretion.
  • Introducing a New Caregiver: handovers between caregivers and sitters.
  • Photography and Keepsakes, Privately: memory books, safe storage and consent.
  • Caregiver Cooking for Littles: purees, finger foods and nutrition basics.
  • Age Play and Intimacy: Keeping It Separate: boundaries between partner mode and little mode.
  • Legal and Paperwork Basics: power of attorney (what not to do), wills, medical proxies.

Pathways​

Not sure where to start? A pathway is a short reading list across everything the Schoolhouse teaches (electives, the Academy or one of its add-ons, the Staffroom and the older courses), in a good order, with a line on why each step comes next. Your progress shows on each step.

There are four: New to diapers, New caregiver, Going solo and Building a dynamic. Find them in the Course catalog.

Courses made by caregivers​

The Course catalog also lists Made by caregivers: short courses written by community caregivers and approved by the Little Academy. They work just like electives, including the gold star and certificate. See Writing a course.

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