Daughter overuses the word "like"

Teenage daughter drives dad crazy. Story as old as time.

As a retired speech teacher I feel your pain. My go to was when my students would speak to me and use five or six likes at a time, I would ask them to repeat the question because all I heard were 6 likes. After a while they got the message and thought about what they were going to say before they said it. The way they say like is used as a filler word.

Better than saying “right?” after everything

I overuse the word "bro"

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The best is the use of, "ummm" in conjunction with - like. "Like, ummmm."

If you start doing it too, she'll probably cut back on it. You know they don't wanna sound like the olds.

Start, like, using "like" even more than, like, she does when, like, talking to, like, her.

When I was in 7th grade, I had an English & history teacher who disliked it when people said "well" all the time. She told us at the beginning of the year if anyone said "well" unnecessarily, she would say "hole in the ground" every time. People got tired of hearing that fairly quickly, and most of us learned to improve our speech patterns.
So, maybe start doing something annoying when she says "like". It may be a losing battle since you're not with her all the time, but my teacher was only with us two hours a day, and her technique worked.

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This is exactly what I would do if my child started talking like that.

I would start saying shite like "no cap" and "rizz" and "fr fr" until they stopped

Plus it would be hilarious

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I do this often with my 13yo especially when she's on the phone with one of her little gf from school. It's particularly great when it's a Facetime call.

Probably got her dad’s genes.