Change ‘continue reading’ text in child theme

Hi y’all! I’m a bit stuck, hoping you guys can help me out… I’m trying to change the text of the ‘continue reading’ link on my blog list page. I have ofcourse called in Google’s help, and I know it’s a widely discussed topic but I just don’t seem to be doing the right things.

I do know some CSS and HTML but no PHP whatsoever so that makes this hard. I’m using the Symphony-theme, of which I have created a child theme. The hardest part seems to be overriding the parent functions.php document. I THINK (but not sure) this is the piece of code in the parent that sets the text:

/**
 * This function returns the more link label for Symphony.
 */
function symphony_more_link_label( $return_default_only = false ) {
	// Return default
	if ( $return_default_only )
		return __( 'Continue Reading', 'symphony' );

	// Get theme mod
	$label = get_theme_mod( 'symphony_more_link_label' );

	return ( ! empty( $label ) ) ? $label : __( 'Continue Reading', 'symphony' );
}

Now what on earth do I put into my child’s functions.php to override this?! Thanks so much in advance for your help!!

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