Growing up, everyone learns
different literacies. These literacies help shape who you are today. Growing
up, a literacy that really shaped who I am today is language with other people.
My parents still encourage how I speak to people and the language I use while
doing it, today.
Parents
are always enforcing little kids to not use “bad words”. Kids also usually look
up to their parents. Their parents are their role models, at least mine were.
My mom is also an English teacher, so listening to her language and how she spoke
was something I always paid close attention to. My parents really forced the no
saying God’s name in vane, no using the word hate, and of course no cursing. I
really respected them when it came to these rules, mainly because I felt my mom
was always right when it came to language.
As
I got older, and started forming my own language, based off of what my parents
had taught me, and figured out what was appropriate for my age, I realized that
my mom still had a huge impact on my language use. I would say “where is it at”
and immediately she would correct me saying “it’s where is IT, not where is it
AT”. Now, every time I hear someone say “where is it at” I immediately hear my
moms voice come into my head saying “it’s where is IT”. Not only would she
correct me on that, but many other things as well. My mom’s language really had
a huge impact on my literacy growing up. Without her, my language would be
completely different.
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