The Smiling Homeschooler Podcast
Jul 22, 2026 · 35 min · 14 segments
Welcome back to the Smiling Homeschooler Podcast. This week, we're talking about something that is true for almost every homeschool mom, and that is doubt. Whether it comes from social media…
Ben WilsonHostCatherineGuestI was just thinking about it, that, you know, I, I'm always posting things over at Facebook, and I hope you go over and check.
Everything I post, um, my thinking behind those things is that they would be encouragement.
Mm-hmm.
Eh.
In You've Got Mail, the boyfriend of Meg Ryan is this goofy guy who works for the reporter, or for the newspaper, and he writes this, the... writes an article, and he's... always uses a lot of words, but he says, he writes at one point, "You are a lone reed," you know, "blowing in the, the wind." And she's like, "What in the heck does that mean?" [laughs]
[laughs]
Um, but so I feel like a lone reed, um, that everybody else is encouraging everybody, "Work harder, work harder.
Clean better," you know, "Cover more material." And I feel like I'm a lone reed blowing in the wind that says, "Relax.
And so I put a meme up there that basically said, uh, and I'm just paraphrasing, because I'm not looking at it right now, but what do you use more often, you know? And, and, and the whole idea started from the idea of I just cannot fold a fitted sheet.
I was just thinking about it, that, you know, I, I'm always posting things over at Facebook, and I hope you go over and check.
Everything I post, um, my thinking behind those things is that they would be encouragement.
Mm-hmm.
Eh.
In You've Got Mail, the boyfriend of Meg Ryan is this goofy guy who works for the reporter, or for the newspaper, and he writes this, the... writes an article, and he's... always uses a lot of words, but he says, he writes at one point, "You are a lone reed," you know, "blowing in the, the wind." And she's like, "What in the heck does that mean?" [laughs]
[laughs]
Um, but so I feel like a lone reed, um, that everybody else is encouraging everybody, "Work harder, work harder.
Clean better," you know, "Cover more material." And I feel like I'm a lone reed blowing in the wind that says, "Relax.
And so I put a meme up there that basically said, uh, and I'm just paraphrasing, because I'm not looking at it right now, but what do you use more often, you know? And, and, and the whole idea started from the idea of I just cannot fold a fitted sheet.
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