So, Like, You Want Your Kids To Speak, Like, Properly?
Category: PARENTING
I'm the parent who stopped with the baby talk when my boys were technically still babies, who counted the superfluous use of "like" in their sentences, and who made them repeat any statement they'd contorted into a question. Linguists say I was fighting evolution.
By Lisa Belkin, Contributor
Senior Columnist, The Huffington Post, 2012-02-28