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🧸 Going solo

Everything in the Academy works without a caregiver. The core course is written as if you have one, and every lesson that needs a second person has a solo version for you.

For littles

No grown-up yet? That's okay. You can do the whole Academy by yourself, and a grown-up can join you any time later.

What changes when you're solo​

  • You confirm your own missions. Missions that would need a caregiver's "yes" are confirmed by you, on the honor system.
  • You sign your own gates. At each gate you read a short checklist and check each line only if it's true on ordinary days. See Gates and level exams.
  • Lessons show solo versions. Where a lesson or story mentions your caregiver, you see how to do the same thing alone.
  • Your forever contract is signed by you alone at graduation.
  • Nobody can hold you at a level. Holds come only from a headmaster.

The Solo Baby add-on​

If you choose I'm solo for now during enrollment, Miss Honeydew suggests the Solo Baby add-on. It teaches you to run your own little life: checks on a timer, a notebook that plays the caregiver, and how to be ready when a caregiver arrives. It's a suggestion; you decide.

Bringing a caregiver in later​

A caregiver can join you at any level.

  1. Link with them on the main site.
  2. On your Map, use the caregiver card to invite them.
  3. Once they co-sign your oath, they're your headmaster. You stay at the level you're at.

See Caregivers as headmasters.

Pathway for solo littles​

Not sure where to start? The Going solo pathway in the Course catalog is a short reading list in a good order. See Electives and pathways.

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