Dar Williams said in a 1/28/07 concert, that the song was written to honor the relationships she had with all of the women that had opened themselves to "the fundamental laws of childhood" in raising her -- her mother, grandmother, teachers, aunts, neighbors, etc.
She then made everyone laugh by adding: "Of course, that's before I actually became a mother. There are (pauses to think) moments like that. I try to remind myself of them. Sometimes I even sing the song."
She then told a tale of her little boy "acting insane" in a restaurant. She worried that if she "was too harsh he'd become a sociopath" but thanks to the backlash against permissive parenting, if she "wasn't firm enough, he'd also become a sociopath"... On top of it, some fans had noticed her, so she was also fretting that they'd "run back saying 'that Dar Williams SEEMS really nice, but I saw her and she's really bada**'!"
Dar Williams said in a 1/28/07 concert, that the song was written to honor the relationships she had with all of the women that had opened themselves to "the fundamental laws of childhood" in raising her -- her mother, grandmother, teachers, aunts, neighbors, etc.
She then made everyone laugh by adding: "Of course, that's before I actually became a mother. There are (pauses to think) moments like that. I try to remind myself of them. Sometimes I even sing the song."
She then told a tale of her little boy "acting insane" in a restaurant. She worried that if she "was too harsh he'd become a sociopath" but thanks to the backlash against permissive parenting, if she "wasn't firm enough, he'd also become a sociopath"... On top of it, some fans had noticed her, so she was also fretting that they'd "run back saying 'that Dar Williams SEEMS really nice, but I saw her and she's really bada**'!"