These roles help you control who has access to a child and what kind of relationship they have to that child in Kiri. The biggest practical difference today is that Parent is the management role, while Caregiver and Pediatrician are child-specific access roles.
Parent
A Parent is the role with management control for that child.
Parents can manage family access for that child.
Parents can invite people, remove people, and change roles.
Parents can edit or delete any entry for that child, even if someone else logged it.
Parents are the right role for the people making access and care-setup decisions in the app.
Caregiver
A Caregiver role is a good fit for a partner, grandparent, nanny, babysitter, or anyone helping with day-to-day care.
Caregiver access is child-specific, not automatically for every child in the family.
Caregivers can view and log updates for the child they were invited to help with.
Caregivers can edit or delete entries they created themselves.
Caregivers do not manage family roles or invites for that child.
Pediatrician
The Pediatrician role is for a medical professional or clinic contact who should have child-specific access in Kiri.
Like Caregiver access, Pediatrician access is tied to the specific child or children you invite them to.
The Pediatrician role helps you organize that person clearly in your family list instead of treating them like a generic caregiver.
Parents still control the invite and role assignment.
In the current app, the key hard permission difference is still Parent versus non-Parent access.
What is the biggest difference in practice?
If you are deciding which role to use, the most important question is whether the person should manage access or simply have access.
Choose Parent if they should manage invites, roles, and child-level access.
Choose Caregiver if they are helping with daily care and logging.
Choose Pediatrician if they are your child's doctor or another clinical contact and you want that relationship labeled clearly in Kiri.
Important to know
Access in Kiri is child-specific. Someone does not automatically see every child in your family just because they were invited once. Parents choose which child or children an invite applies to.
Where to manage roles
Go to Settings -> Parent and Caregivers to review members, invites, and role assignments for the selected child.