It’s, like, wicked annoying

I can’t take it. My almost 5 year old has started talking like a valley girl. She’s 5! This girl has a better vocabulary than I do, but somehow, it just doesn’t sound right to hear her say, “Actually, like, fantasy means a dream. Do you, like, know what I mean?” No, I don’t know what you mean. I didn’t hear a word of it, except ‘like.’ We need to do something about that.

I said, “M, instead of saying, “The dog, was, like, ‘Woof,’ how about saying, “The dog said woof”?

“No, Mom, the dog was, like, ‘woof.’ Dogs can’t SAY anything.” Touche.

She was with her cousins, same age, recently, and I swear they had an entire conversation without actually using words, other than ‘like.’

“I was, like, uh-oh” “I bet you were, like, wow!” “Like, yeah. And I bet you’d be, like, cool!” They didn’t seem lost. I certainly was.

How about the little Boston accent she is developing? It’s cute and terrifying at the same time. She is always asking to play with her stickahs. Yes, that’s stickers to those of you who speak properly. I am from this area. I grew up 9 miles from where I live now. I had the accent…I lost it. On purpose. I went to school in Western, MA, and thankfully learned that ‘R’ is, in fact, an actual part of the alphabet. Joe is from New York. He, too, sees the value in R. Our daughter? Not a fan of R.

I am just so glad that none of our names can be Bostonized. It’s bad enough that we have to get to the ‘cah’ every day to drive to school. M is starting to teach Abs to say more words. I only hope that “Mo’ juice” is simply because she can’t say ‘more,’ and not because she refuses to.

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