---
title: "Can one parent belong to two families here?"
description: "Not under one login. The app shows one family per daycare, so a parent who truly needs two families uses a second email for the second one."
type: troubleshoot
updated: 2026-08-26
canonical_url: https://help.nestlicare.com/owners/faq/can-a-parent-belong-to-two-families
roles: ["super_admin", "center_admin"]
platforms: [web]
---
Not under one login. Within one daycare, a parent's app shows **one family**. This comes up with blended households: a parent with a child in one family and another child in a second family (a different co-parent, a different household).

If you add the same email to both families, the parent's app will still show only one of them, while notifications arrive for children in both. That mismatch confuses everyone, so avoid it.

## What to do instead

Use a **second email address** for the second family:

1. If the parent was already added to the second family under their usual email, **remove them from that family first**. Leaving the old membership in place keeps sending them that child's notifications while the app shows the other child.
2. Then invite a different email address of theirs to the second family.

They log in with one address or the other depending on which child they are dealing with.

One login across **different daycares** is fine, and so is one family containing several children. This limit is only about two families inside the same daycare.

Related: [Invite parents to the app](/owners/families/invite-parents-to-the-app), [Two homes, one child](/owners/situations/two-homes-one-child), [A parent already has a NestliCare account](/owners/faq/a-parent-already-has-a-nestlicare-account).