---
title: "See your child's day"
description: "Open the parent app to see activities, meals, naps, diapers, and photos as teachers post them."
type: guide
updated: 2026-10-18
canonical_url: https://help.nestlicare.com/parents/check-in/see-your-childs-day
roles: ["parent"]
platforms: [ios, android, web]
---
The daily feed is the heart of the parent app. Every meal, nap, diaper, photo, and note your child's teachers log shows up here — usually within a few seconds.

Short version first: this narrated video walks through a morning in the feed.

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New to the app? This 90-second tour shows every tab.

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  title="The parent app, a tour (narrated, 90 seconds)"
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## Open the feed

1. Open the NestliCare app.
2. You land on the **Home** tab (the 🏠 icon in the bottom nav).
3. Your children appear as circular story-style avatars at the top. The feed of today's activities is underneath.

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    { x: 1, y: 12.2, caption: "Story row — each child's avatar. Ring color reflects their attendance status (checked in / not yet)" },
    { x: 1, y: 12.7, caption: "Tap an avatar to see their story view (attendance + recent photos)" },
    { x: 1, y: 26.2, caption: "Activity feed — newest at top. Meals, naps, diapers, photos, notes, announcements, incidents" },
    { x: 1, y: 58.2, caption: "Tap any card to see the full detail, including the teacher who logged it" },
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## On a computer, without the app

The app is the best way to follow your child's day, but it is not the only way. You can sign in at [nestlicare.com](https://nestlicare.com) with the same email and password and see your children, invoices and payments, messages, documents, and the center calendar in a browser.

Two things to expect if you do:

- The browser view is built for the things you might rather do on a bigger screen — paying an invoice, filling in a form — and it is not a copy of the app.

Photos and daily activities are worth having the app for, since that is where the notifications arrive.

## Switch between children

At the top of Home, each child has a circular avatar in a story-style row. Tap an avatar to open their story view. The feed on the Home tab itself shows activities across **all** your children together — it's one combined timeline.

## What you'll see in the feed

- **Meals and snacks** — what they ate, how much (a little, most, all), who fed them
- **Naps** — start time, end time, duration
- **Diaper changes** — wet, dry, BM, with optional photos for skin issues
- **Photos** — a moment a teacher captured, with a short caption
- **Teacher notes** — "had a rough morning but bounced back after outdoor time"
- **Announcements** — room-wide or center-wide messages (picnic Friday, weather closure)
- **Incidents** — if there was an injury or behavior note, this appears here with details

## Save a post to find it later

Tap the bookmark icon under a post to save it. Saved posts appear in a **Saved Items** section further down the **Home** tab, so you don't have to scroll back through the feed. On iPhone, the section shows three saved posts; tap **View All** for the rest. Tap the bookmark again to unsave a post.

A few things to know:

- Saved Items only appears once you've saved something.
- Saves are kept on that phone. They don't carry over to another phone, a reinstall, or the browser.
- The list is built from your recent feed, so a post saved a long time ago can drop off it. Download photos you want to keep.
- The bookmark keeps a list only in the parent app. On staff and admin accounts it doesn't save posts anywhere.

## Naps in progress

While your child is napping, the **Home** tab shows that they're sleeping. The nap appears in the feed with its times once they wake up.

## Like and comment

Tap the heart on a post to like it, or comment to reply to the teacher.

## Yesterday's day, last week's day

Scroll back. The feed goes back indefinitely — useful for when your pediatrician asks what your kid ate on a specific day.

To filter by category (e.g., show only photos), tap the filter icon in the Home header. A "Showing: [filter]" pill appears with a **Clear** button so you remember to turn it back off.

## Check-in times and weekly hours

On the **Dashboard** tab, tap **History** next to **Today's Attendance** (on the web: **My Family → My Attendance**). You'll see every drop-off and pick-up, and the day's hours next to each one. **Hours this week** at the top adds them up for each of your children, which helps if your daycare bills extra hours past a weekly limit. Weeks run Monday to Sunday. Switch to **Today**, **This Month**, or a custom range to total those instead.

## Push notifications

If you want to know the moment something gets logged (a photo, a feeding, an announcement):

1. Open the **Me** tab.
2. Under **Settings**, tap **Notifications**.
3. Turn on what you want. The switches are **Messages**, **Check-in / Check-out**, **Incidents**, **Announcements and Newsletters**, **Progress reports**, **Billing**, **Daily Activities**, **Room Moves**, **Likes** and **Comments**.

**Daily Activities** is off at first. Turn it on to get a push for each meal, nap and photo. Everything still shows in your feed either way.

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In the app it is under **Me → Notifications**, in the **Important** group:

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## Troubleshooting

**Feed is empty.** Nothing has been logged yet today. Pull down to refresh.

**An entry I saw earlier is gone.** A teacher deleted it (usually a mistake correction — the next entry is likely the corrected version).

**Photo won't load.** Tap it and wait. If it's still blank, switch to wifi. Photos need a good connection the first time they load.

**Wrong child shown.** The Home feed shows activities across all your children together. If the card you're looking at is for the wrong kid, check the child-name label on the card. To see just one child's day, tap their story avatar at the top of Home.