"Sponers of Literacy": Brought to you by Writing about Writing

I would have to say my primary sponsors are mostly family and school.

Family was a big one, as both my parents are teachers and focused on academics and education. They were the ones that focused me on getting grades and making sure I was learning so I could be better prepared for the “real world” once I got there. They were the ones who taught me most of my types of literacy: reading, writing, manners (civil literacy I guess), work ethics, and money literacy (saving and budgeting). But through them, I also grew to be literate in different things like computers, video games, and religion. I had always lived with mom after my parents divorced, and she was always against computers (unless for school work) and video games. She also has a very defined sense of religion that I was forced to follow when I'm with her. I believe the reason I worked to make myself literate in the things she hates was in spite of her. It's not a matter of dislike to my mother, but more of making myself instead of letting her make me what she wanted. Computers and games were always more interesting than the arts and music that she liked. As for School, it has helped develop me more in reading and writing literacy, along with computer literacy.

Both have always been accessible to me. Family is mostly a forced sponsor so it's hard to avoid it. School has been helpful in developing because of the different classes focusing on different things to further my literacy in different areas. Both also try to help me develop as best they can. One of the only things I wish I could have had access to is a better sense of language literacy. By that, I'm talking more of different languages instead of just English. Thinking of the growing businesses, it might have served me better to learn different languages earlier on so I would be able to use them more often.