--- description: They’ve shaped the culture of always being on. Now millennials have a new focus: their children title: Help! My Parents Are Millennials image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3165015d8b3cf9b2/69886867bc6cfc34a63d9eca/millennial-parents.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Help! My Parents Are Millennials by [Katy Steinmetz](/author/katy-steinmetz/) ## Katy Steinmetz Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2015 10:31 AM CUT  They’ve shaped the culture of always being on. Now millennials have a new focus: their children. They’ve shaped the culture of always being on. Now millennials have a new focus: their children.Photo-illustration by Andrew B. Myers for TIME by [Katy Steinmetz](/author/katy-steinmetz/) ## Katy Steinmetz Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 15, 2015 10:31 AM CUT On a playground in San Francisco, 4-year-old Astral Defiance Hayes takes a stick and writes his name in the sand. His twin brother Defy Aster Hayes whizzes around their father. When the boys pause for snack time, Lucas, 33, a tattooed stay-at-home dad, peels each of them a banana. One of them balks… [](http://time.com/help-my-parents-are-millennials-cover-story/ "undefined")[_Read the full story here._](http://time.com/millennialparents/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4074567/help-my-parents-are-millennials/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4074567/help-my-parents-are-millennials/"},"headline":"Help! My Parents Are Millennials","datePublished":"2015-10-15T10:31:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:27.698Z","description":"They’ve shaped the culture of always being on. Now millennials have a new focus: their children","url":"https://time.com/4074567/help-my-parents-are-millennials/","keywords":["Living","Parenting"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3165015d8b3cf9b2/69886867bc6cfc34a63d9eca/millennial-parents.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katy Steinmetz","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/katy-steinmetz/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3165015d8b3cf9b2/69886867bc6cfc34a63d9eca/millennial-parents.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"millennial-parents","caption":"millennial-parents","creditText":"Photo-illustration by Andrew B. Myers for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4074567/help-my-parents-are-millennials/","name":"Help! My Parents Are Millennials"}}]}] ```