Attention is sustained. Concentration emerges.
Pintagrow helps families accompany one of the most important processes of early childhood: learning to stay with a task. It does so through short mark-making sessions on printed activity sheets, with an adult beside the child.
Concentration cannot be taught directly. It appears when the right conditions repeat: a simple task, few materials, a calm adult and brief experiences the child can manage. Pintagrow organizes those conditions and observes how the child responds to them over time.
One activity sheet, a few minutes, an adult beside the child
Ideally, one session a day. It lasts between 1 and 10 minutes, depending on the child. The adult offers 2 to 4 crayons and sits beside them.
- Record: the adult rests the phone with the rear camera pointed at the child and the sheet, and leaves it recording. The app blurs the face on the phone itself.
- Accompany: the adult does not guide the hand. They look at what the child looks at and describe without judging.
- Finish: the child decides when the session ends.
- Photograph: the app guides a photo of the finished sheet, with its four corner marks visible.
Only what can be seen in the video and the photo
Everything in the report comes from what was recorded. Each data point says where it comes from.
| The video shows | The photo shows |
|---|---|
| How long the child drew | Where the marks are on the sheet |
| Pauses, leaving and coming back | Whether the marks relate to the figure on the sheet |
| Who ended the session | How much of the sheet is covered, and with which colors |
| Whether the adult helped physically | Lines, loops and closed shapes |
A finished drawing does not show attention, intention or planning. That is why Pintagrow does not infer them from the photo.
The child moves forward when they confirm it twice
Each session is looked at from two angles: attention (from the video, compared with the child’s own previous sessions) and graphic relationship (from the photo: whether the marks relate to the figure the sheet proposes).
When both are present, the session qualifies. Two qualifying sessions in a row confirm the activity sheet, and the child moves to the next one.
If that does not happen, the child repeats with specific suggestions, revisits the previous sheet as reinforcement and tries again. The child is never stuck: after a set number of attempts they move on, and the sheet is marked as “exposed, not confirmed”.
There is no “good” or “bad” result. There is information to prepare the next session.
Books by stage, not by age
Each book matches a stage of scribbling, because children of the same age can be at very different stages. Each one has nine activity sheets, numbered 0 to 8. Sheet 0 is a free page that serves as the child’s starting point.
The sheets follow a strict order. Going back to an earlier one is reinforcement: it is observed, but it does not count toward the current sheet.
Montessori and Waldorf are two different books. A child follows one path from start to finish, without switching between them.
The child’s data belongs to the family
The face is blurred on the phone before anything is uploaded. Recording requires the guardian’s consent, which can be withdrawn at any time.
A professional can only see a child’s information if the guardian authorizes it explicitly, and that authorization can also be revoked. Pintagrow follows Chilean Law 19.628 and Law 21.719 on personal data protection.