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👶🍼Childcare Tracking App A full‑stack Flask application using SQLite for user accounts and MongoDB for childcare logs. This app tracks feeding, sleep, and nappy events with clean forms, daily summaries, editing, deleting, validation, and a modern UI.

📘 Project Description This Childcare Tracking App is a full‑stack Flask application designed for parents who want a simple, reliable way to track their child’s daily routines. The app provides clean, easy‑to‑use forms for logging feeding, sleep, and nappy events, along with a dashboard that summarises daily activity at a glance.

User accounts and child profiles are stored in SQLite, while childcare logs are stored in MongoDB for flexibility and scalability. The app includes validation, editing, deleting, and a modern UI built with custom CSS.

This project demonstrates full‑stack development skills, database design, CRUD operations, authentication, and clean UI/UX principles

⭐ Features

👶 Child Profile Add and view full child details Automatically calculates age and development stage

Includes: Child name Date of birth Age (automatically calculated) Development stage (Newborn, Infant, Toddler, Preschooler, etc.) Gender

The development stage updates automatically based on the child’s age.

👩 Parent Profile View and manage parent account details Centralised parent information used across the app

Includes: First & last name Username Email Parent gender Parent date of birth Account creation date

🍽️ Feeding Log Track milk, water, juice, meals, and snacks Smart input: Drinks → amount + unit Meals/snacks → percentage eaten Add notes Edit and delete entries

😴 Sleep Log Log sleep start and end times Automatic duration calculation Edit and delete entries

🧷 Nappy Log Track wet/dirty nappies Add optional notes Edit and delete entries

📊 Dashboard Daily summaries Quick overview of feeding, sleep, and nappy activity Clean, simple UI

🔐 Authentication Register Login Logout Session‑based user access

🗄️ MongoDB Database All logs stored in MongoDB Uses ObjectId for editing/deleting

🗄️ SQLite Database (Users & Children)

👨‍👩‍👧 Users Table Stores parent account information.

Column	Type	Description
id	INTEGER PK	Unique user ID
first_name	TEXT	Parent’s first name
last_name	TEXT	Parent’s last name
email	TEXT UNIQUE	Login email
username	TEXT UNIQUE	Chosen username (used across the app)
password	TEXT	Hashed password (Werkzeug)
parent_gender	TEXT	Parent’s gender
parent_dob	TEXT	Parent’s date of birth
created_at	TEXT	Timestamp when the account was created

👶 Children Table Stores child profile information linked to the parent.

Column	Type	Description
id	INTEGER PK	Unique child ID
user_id	INTEGER FK	Links child to parent
child_name	TEXT	Child’s name
dob	TEXT	Child’s date of birth
gender	TEXT	Child’s gender

🛠️ Tech Stack

🔧 Backend Python Flask Jinja2 templating PyMongo MongoDB SQLite

🎨 Frontend HTML CSS (custom styling)

🧰 Tools Git & GitHub Windows CMD / PowerShell / Git Bash

📸 Screenshots

Dashboard

Parent Profile

Child Profile

Feeding Log

Sleep Log

Nappy Log

🚀 Installation & Setup Follow these steps to run the project locally:

1. Clone the repository git clone cd

2. Create a virtual environment python -m venv venv venv\Scripts\activate # Windows

3. Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Set up SQLite (automatic) SQLite is created automatically when you run the app.

5. Set up MongoDB You can use either:

Local MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas (cloud)

Create a .env file in the project root: MONGO_URI=your_mongo_connection_string SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key

6. Run the app python app.py

Open your browser at: http://127.0.0.1:5000

📘 How to Use the App

1. Register a new account

2. Log in to access your dashboard

3. Create your parent profile

4. Add your child’s profile

5. Use the dashboard to navigate between: Feeding log Sleep log Nappy log

6. Add new entries using the clean forms

7. View history tables for each log

8. Edit or delete entries as needed

9. Log out when finished

Project Structure /static style.css

/templates base.html dashboard.html feeding.html sleep.html nappy.html login.html register.html child_profile.html parent_profile.html

app.py requirements.txt README.md .env (not included in repo)

🔮 Future Improvements

• Charts for feeding, sleep and nappy trends
• Reminders and notifications
• Role-based access (eg, both parents logging)
• Multi-child support
• Mobile-friendly responsive layout These improvements will make the app more powerful and user‑friendly over time.

👩‍💻 Author Ricana P Aspiring junior developer building full‑stack applications with Flask, MongoDB, and SQLite. Focused on clean UI, practical features, and real‑world problem solving.

GitHub: https://github.com/ricanapx LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricana-p-62a0b1224