Helping Parents Succeed
My daughter, J, celebrated her 7th birthday on a moderate scale recently.
My wife and I vaguely suggested to our son to make a birthday card for his sister – thinking it could be an impossible dream.
But to our surprise, K took up the challenge right off the bat.
Do you have problems managing your child’s anger? Or does your child get angry easily?
This might be the solution you are looking for: Child Anger Revealed, which is a child anger management guide written by Jamie Sullivan. As the title says this guide talks in-depth about how to teach your child manage anger.
Before I proceed, let me tell you this: I shouldn’t have written this article because it doesn’t look good on me. I could have chosen to hide this from you.
But I go ahead and complete it despite my initial hesitation, for one main reason: I want you to know we are not perfect. And everybody has one or more weaknesses (in parenting our children). Despite this fact, I also want you to know what is more important is we do our best to minimize our weaknesses, or better still get rid of them.
I am not shy to admit I have some weaknesses myself. This is one of them…
After visiting Segari Turtle Sanctuary, it was about time to end our trip and go home. Before we did, we stopped by in Sitiawan for a bowl of cendol (a local dessert with shaved ice, coconut milk, and palm sugar) to cool off the hot day.
From my research, the best cendol you can ever have in Sitiawan is James cendol.
The famous cendol stall is situated right at the entrance to a Hindu temple on Jalan Lumut – within a walking distance from The Store supermarket or Uncle John Cafe.
Unlike the old days, now you can’t spot Uncle James in red bow-tie anymore (used to be his trademark) as the stall is now run by his wife and son.
This was the first time I tried James cendol. The palm sugar and coconut milk was very thick and overall the cendol was awesome and refreshing – though I found it a bit salty.
The price for normal cendol is RM1.50 while cendol with glutinous rice (pulut) is RM1.60. Both J and K loved the one with pulut. Yummy.
On the way home from Teluk Intan to Bidor, we were happy to see a huge rainbow. One of the best we had ever seen! Simply awesome.
Note: This is the tenth and final article of Family Weekend Getaway: A Road Trip To Lumut series.
This was the main reason why we came to Lumut. Segari Turtle Conservation Centre is about 30 minutes’ drive from Teluk Batik – on the way to Pantai Remis. To reach Segari Turtle Sanctuary from Lumut or Seri Manjung, you have to cross three bridges. Huge and beautiful rivers.
Follow the road signs and it will lead you to the turtle center in a remote beach somewhere in Pasir Panjang.
Even though the Segari Turtle Conservation Centre is not very big but it serves a very noble cause by conserving the sea turtles. This absolutely helps to prevent them from extinction. The center collects turtle eggs from the beach nearby and place them in the hatchery area of the center. After hatching, the turtles will be separated by size (or age) and put into respective pools to let them grow. Once they are big enough, they will be freed into the sea.
You can have fun at the beach there but when we were there, it was 3.30pm and the sun was glaringly hot. I must say the beach here is far better, cleaner than Teluk Batik.
Segari Turtle Sanctuary (Pusat Pengurusan Penyu)
Pasir Panjang, Segari,
Perak.
Opening hours:
Mon-Sun – 10am to 12.30pm, 2pm to 5pm
Fri – 10am to 12 noon, 2.30pm to 5pm
Entrance is free.
Note: This is the ninth article of Family Weekend Getaway: A Road Trip To Lumut series.