Early Detection of Growth in an Effort To Optimize Growth and Development in Children

Abstract

Children's growth and development period is perilous for every child's life, so paying attention to all aspects that support and affect growth and development is essential. Early detection of child development using anthropometric methods is necessary to determine the level of development speed in children, which aims to detect that the child is experiencing development that is too fast, too slow, or even normal development according to their age of growth and development. The purpose of this community service is for parents to understand and comprehend the progress of child development based on their child's age. The method used is participatory or interactive, which is done by measuring development and inviting children to color. Which is aimed at 82 students at Kartika IV-70 Jogotrunan Lumajang Kindergarten. The results obtained from this community service showed that 82 respondents' growth and development periods were regular, and there were no deviations. During the activity, participants followed well and enthusiastically and received good respon