34. Travelling the Open Roads

Hi gang! I wonder if you are having trouble staying on the open roads? I seem to choose too many dead-end roads. My friends are trying to help me, and I appreciate all their help. If you have a dead-end road that you want to avoid, maybe you can do what Daisy suggested for me, and pick one of the open roads to concentrate on every day for a week. That seemed to help me.

Which open road would you like to focus on this week? I am going to choose the accepting road because I have been thinking that this stay at home restriction is going on too long. I want to concentrate on the accepting road by thinking about the bigger issue of everyone staying healthy. I accept that when we were all staying safe at home, the number of Covid-19 cases are levelling-off and even going down. Now I hear that cars are going out more and the cases are rising.

I am choosing to accept the warnings about wearing masks and social distancing. I want to make my community safe.

Here are the open roads again for you to consider.

What open road will you choose to focus on this week? Will it help you to be happier if you decide that you want to stay on that open road? Try it and see. Let me know how it goes.

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35. Missing my friends!

Doug tells me that he is missing his adventures with his friends. I was surprised because I thought they had been connecting on the internet almost every day. I guess it has been hard for him to give up driving fast and racing with his friends at the drag track.

I asked him what he thought would help him to connect with his friends and feel the excitement of racing adventures or crazy stunts that they used to do together. He had to think about it for a while. Sometimes it takes time to think of a new activity that will bring you as much fun and excitement as the old familiar games. But do you know what?

Doug came to me this morning and announced that he and Sid had found a new racing video game that they could play and challenge each other, right from their own homes. They asked Larry Limo to help them discover a game that would be ok for them to play, and they found it. Maybe you could ask your parents to help you find a new activity or game on the computer or in your game closet so you could get happier at home? Maybe you will invent one and send it to me here so we can share it with other dragsters and friends?

Doug learned that “you can’t always get what you want, but if you try hard enough, you can always get what you need.”

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36. I love to help!

Good day, everyone. Did Mini tell you about Doug’s missing his friends? Doug asked me to help him and Sid find a new challenging racing game, I got happier and knew he would be happier by involving me in solving his problem. Sometimes I guess kids think that they have to solve all their problems by themselves. And that is not altogether a bad way to think. But if you trust your family and parents enough to ask for help, everyone feels better, and the problems can be solved much quicker and in safe and effective ways. Parents like to be asked to help their kids. I used to ask my brother Uncle Diesel for help. He was always happy to help and I was always happy to get his suggestions. Grandfather Dizzy has helped Doug a lot too. If you read Doug’s book, The Amazing Adventures of Doug Dragster, you will see how helpful parents and grandparents can be. Check it out.

What are some of the problems in your life that you could use help solving? Do you trust your family to help you? Connecting with your family and seeking ways to help each other, always helps you get happier. Try it.

BY THE WAY DID YOU GET YOUR PITCREW LICENSE!
Just go to the Kids Dragtrack and do the quiz.

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33. Who can I trust? Can I trust myself?

Yesterday Morris said he would skype me this morning, but he didn’t. I thought I could trust him and now I am wondering, was he just joking or did he just forget? Do you ever wonder who you can trust, or even what is TRUST? It is one of the open roads, but I never really thought much about it until this morning.

I am going to lead a skype meeting of all the Double Devil Dragster gang and challenge them to discuss what TRUST means to them. Maybe you would like to do that with your family. You could use the class meeting process. Ask each person to first say what TRUST means to them. Then ask each one to tell about a personal experience with trust or the lack of it and how it felt. Finally, challenge each one to think about whether they want to TRUST others or do they want to be TRUST worthy themselves. These are hard questions to consider. I think if we discuss it together, we will be happier with each other because we will know more about how others think about TRUST. What do you think?

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