Home Alone: Lessons Learned From Courageous Abandoned Children

Home Alone:
Lessons Learned From Courageous Abandoned Children

Show Notes

Imagine waking up one morning to discover you are entirely alone. Everyone else in your home has disappeared. You look out the window and the streets are empty. No cars on the road, no planes overhead. Shops are abandoned. Schools are deserted. Buildings completely vacant.No phone reception. No internet connection. No electricity. No television or radio. It is silent and eerie. Lonely.

You are alone on an island with no one else and there’s no way out.

Now imagine if all this was happening and you are a child. Book and movies about children abandoned and left on their own are popular in fiction. But they also happen in real life. The most powerless and the most vulnerable have at times in history figured out how to survive on their own and they have lessons to teach the rest of us.

Major Sources Include:
1. Megan Freeman, Interview Nov 24, 2020
2. Nikki Martyn, Interview Dec 14, 2020
3. Daniela Contreras Perez-Sosa, Interview Dec 22, 2020
4. 200 Days of Solitude, The Village Voice
5. Alone by Megan Freeman

Host and Writer: Peg Fong
Director: Callie O’Reilly
Theme music: Ian Lefeuvre and Ari Posner
Engineer: Geoff Devine
Producers: Debbie O’Reilly and Guillermo Serrano
Executive Producer: Terry O’Reilly

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Show Notes

You are alone on an island with no one else and there’s no way out.

This show is brought to you by the Apostrophe Podcast Network and powered by Acast.