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● one caregiver · several children · no training needed

Every child in your care, on one clear scale.

For nannies, home daycares and family caregivers looking after more than one child. The same validated check-in for each of them — so you can see who's thriving and who needs a closer look.

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Add each child once. Re-check as often as you like.
Example · 6 children in your care
Each child, seen
6 of 6 done
Mateo 14m
on track
Sofía 11m
ahead
Lucas 16m
watch
Emma 9m
on track
Noah 13m
on track
Ana 15m
watch
Two children to look at more closely — with the specific next skill for each, so you know what to do tomorrow.
Why this isn't another milestone checklist

A validated instrument — not a list someone wrote down.

74
skills across 4 developmental areas, birth to 6 years1
0.996
Cronbach's α — internal consistency, from 2,135 caregivers2
21,861
children in the Stanford analysis of how development unfolds3
P75
each skill's expected age set at the 75th percentile, per AAP practice2

Milestone lists are built from what a committee agrees on. This instrument was built from what hundreds of thousands of real children actually did — then tested for reliability, validated as a psychometric scale2, and analyzed with Stanford's Language and Cognition Lab to understand how developmental areas relate to each other over time3.

The finding that changed how we measure

In the first year, developmental areas move together so tightly that being ahead in one means being ahead in all of them. That coupling drops sharply across the first 12 months, and the areas begin to follow their own timelines.3 It's why a single, clear number is the honest read early on — and why separate area scores only start to mean something later.

The skills map

In the first year, everything develops as one thing. Then it expands.

Every skill has a window — the age range where it's actively developing. Early on those windows move together so tightly they behave like a single process. Around a year, they separate and each area starts keeping its own time.3

Skills developing at once
Kinedu Skills® map · 74 skills · 0–72 months1
15
open at 7 months
PhysicalCognitiveLanguageSocial-emotional ~12 months · areas separate birth 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 6 yrs
first year: one coupled process Physical Cognitive Language Social-emotional
How it works

Three steps. No training needed.

1

Answer what you see

Plain questions about what the child already does — written to be answered by any caregiver, not a specialist.2

2

Get a real profile

Not a score out of ten. Where the child sits in the sequence, what's strong, and what's emerging next.

3

Know what to do

The profile points at the skills opening now — turning "are they behind?" into "what are they building?"

What you get

Several children. One clear view.

  • ∞Each child on the same validated scale — assessed in minutes, no certification required.2
  • !See at a glance who is on track and who deserves a closer look.
  • →The specific next skill for each child, so you know what to do tomorrow.
  • ✉A summary you can hand to each family — clear, calm, and grounded in research.
Example · 6 children in your care
Each child, seen
6 of 6 done
Mateo 14m
on track
Sofía 11m
ahead
Lucas 16m
watch
Emma 9m
on track
Noah 13m
on track
Ana 15m
watch
Two children to look at more closely — with the specific next skill for each, so you know what to do tomorrow.
Pricing

Start where you are.

Try it
Free first child
  • One full profile, free
  • See exactly how it works
  • No card required
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Per child
$9.99 per assessment
  • Any child, any time
  • Full profile and next steps
  • Family-ready summary
Start the assessment
All your children
$39.99 per child, per year
  • Monthly check-ins for each child
  • Watch each pace change over time
  • All profiles in one place
Set up your children

Caring for several children at once? Talk to us — we'll set you up with the right plan.

What this is — and isn't. The Kinedu Assessment is a developmental surveillance tool: it surfaces a child's strengths and next steps. It is not a diagnostic instrument and does not identify developmental conditions or delays.2 If you have concerns about a child's development, speak with a pediatrician or qualified professional.
Sources. 1 Kinedu Skills® map, 0–72 months (74 skills; area windows as mapped internally). 2 Kinedu Initial Assessment scale construction & psychometric analysis — internal validation study, N=2,135 caregivers of children 0–55 months; Cronbach's α = .996; ages of acquisition set at the 75th percentile following AAP practice; items designed for untrained caregivers; milestone set drawn from AAP and CDC frameworks and peer-reviewed literature. 3 Stenhaug, B., Ram, N., & Frank, M. C. — The structure of developmental variation in early childhood (Stanford), analysing 21,861 children and 177,934 observations from Kinedu app data; finds within-person coupling between developmental factors decreases markedly over the first 12 months.
Illustrative figures in sample screens are examples, not results from any specific child, classroom or school.

Every child in your care,
seen clearly.

The validated science behind Kinedu — as a check-in you can take today.

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