Development is the process of increasing maturity and human psychological function. The importance of knowing development, especially in early childhood, is because the childs current development will affect development throughout his life span [1]. Child development is a process of the child when experiencing changes over time. Physical, language, emotional and thinking changes are a reference for developments that occur in children from birth to early adulthood [2]. From this development reference, each parent can optimally monitor the development of their child so that they are able to grow well and healthily based on the childs developmental stages according to their age. If there is no adequate support from parents in optimizing child development, the child may experience growth delays compared to children of his age [3].In todays digital era, parents can maximize their childrens development by taking advantage of technological sophistication with gadgets to monitor childrens growth and development which is ideal as a source of information that can add to parents understanding in the world of parenting apart from routinely checking their children to the doctor or to the nearest Posyandu. 4]. With the development of increasingly sophisticated technology, important moments in child development can easily be captured every day [5]. Moreover, early childhood who are in the age range of 0-6 years have very rapid development of around 40% and are seen as very important so that they are termed a golden age which only occurs once in the life phase of every human being so that early childhood cannot be wasted [1].To assist parents, especially mothers who spend a lot of time with their children from the time they are pregnant, breastfeeding, until the children grow up, a digital journal application called MAMANOTE was created to assist mothers in recording and monitoring the growth and development of their children. This Android-based application aims to provide information to mothers about the ideal child development according to their age and help record the growth and development of the child.
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