Home Alone: Lessons Learned From Courageous Abandoned Children
Listen now
Description
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.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
More Episodes
Hello podcast listeners! I'm Peg Fong, writer and creator of "Alone Together." We are continuing our journey exploring loneliness...in Spanish: "Juntos en soledad." Listen to this new adaptation presented by business professor and producer Guillermo Serrano (@guilloserrano). "Juntos en soledad" –...
Published 11/02/23
Published 11/02/23
We are living in lonely times, but the human conditions make us wonder, are we alone in our loneliness?  And that answer is clear.  Somewhere, someone else is taking off for the unknown, moving to small towns or hitting the road to start a new life. We can understand loneliness when we peer up...
Published 02/25/22