Homeschooled: Isolation, a Mother’s Unraveling, and Finding a Way Out w/ Stefan Merrill Block

Living in the Meantime with Stephen Bauman · Mar 4, 2026 · 51m

Stephen sits down with bestselling author Stefan Merrill Block to discuss his memoir Homeschooled—a tender, unsettling, often darkly funny account of being pulled out of school at nine and drawn into years of isolation with a mother in slow-motion collapse. Together they explore the blurry line between love and control, how loneliness shapes a mind, what “unschooling” can hide, and why basic oversight and child protections in homeschooling laws matter.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Welcome + introducing Homeschooled and Stefan Merrill Block

00:04:20 “A semester”…