---
title: "A teacher is also a parent"
description: "One email, one login, two profiles. How to set up staff who have a child at your daycare, and how they switch between the two views."
type: guide
updated: 2026-08-26
canonical_url: https://help.nestlicare.com/owners/situations/a-teacher-is-also-a-parent
roles: ["super_admin", "center_admin"]
platforms: [web, ios, android]
---
It happens constantly: a teacher's own child attends your daycare, or your director is also a parent here. In NestliCare that person uses **one email and one login** for both sides. They do not need a second email address, and they do not log out and back in to switch.

## Set it up

The order does not matter; give the same email both memberships:

- **Already staff?** Add them to their family as a parent, exactly like any other parent. Because the email already belongs to someone at your organization, the parent membership attaches to their existing login. No invitation dance, no new password.
- **Already a parent?** Add them as staff from **Staff & Time → Staff**. If the form tells you the email already has an account and offers **Send an invitation instead**, send it: they open the link, sign in with the password they already have, and click **Accept**. The staff role is added to the same login.

## What they experience

A **profile switcher** appears once they hold more than one profile:

- **In the mobile apps**, on their profile screen: a Switch Profile section listing their other role, with the note that notifications for both keep arriving on the same device.
- **On the web dashboard**, in the sidebar just above Sign out: **Switch to Parent view** or **Switch to Staff view** (or a list, if they hold several).

Switching flips the whole app between the staff view and the parent view. Their pickup code, their child's feed, and their invoices live on the parent side; their rooms, clock-in, and messages-as-staff live on the staff side.

## The boundaries

- **One parent profile per daycare.** Their parent side shows one family here. If they genuinely belong to two families at your daycare, see [Can one parent belong to two families here?](/owners/faq/can-a-parent-belong-to-two-families)
- **Roles stay separate.** Being staff does not leak admin powers into their parent view or vice versa; each profile has exactly its own access.
- **Offboarding is per side.** If they stop working for you, deactivate their staff record; their parent profile is untouched and their child's history stays intact. If the family leaves but they keep working for you, archive the family; their staff login keeps working.

## The same trick works across daycares

A person can hold profiles at several organizations on one login: staff at yours, parent at another daycare that uses NestliCare. Invitations to an email that already has an account always attach to it rather than creating a duplicate.

Related: [Can a staff member also be a parent?](/owners/faq/can-a-staff-member-also-be-a-parent), [Invite your team](/getting-started/invite-your-team), [Invite parents to the app](/owners/families/invite-parents-to-the-app), [Deactivate a staff member](/owners/staff/deactivate-a-staff-member).