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1). Excellent May Gardening Tips
May in Southwestern New Mexico & west Texas can be hot, dry and/or windy. Take precautions to make sure all watering systems are working at their best.

Use Cypress mulch to help keep roots insulated from the HOT sun. This helps keep moisture in the root zone as well as the keeping weeds down to a minimum.

Lantana, red bird of paradise, Oleander, and other winter damaged plants may be emerging at this time.

2). Mindful Parenting Tip: Telling a Child What to Do and How to Behave will Often Backfire on You
The most effective way to get someone to do something, especially children, it to model the desired behavior. Nobody likes to be lectured to or be constantly told what to do. Lecturing will quickly send children in the opposite direction.

3). Mindful Parenting Tip: Children Need To Feel That They Belong
Misbehaving children are discouraged children who have mistaken ideas on how to achieve their Primary Goal: TO BELONG. Mistaken ideas lead to misbehavior. Address the mistaken belief rather than just the misbehavior.

4). Mindful Parenting Tips: Use Family Or Class Meetings For Problem Solving
Use family meetings to create a framework for identifying solutions as a family. This makes the family unit the authority instead of just you (which is a set up for power struggles).

5). Mindful Parenting Tip: Learn the Steps to Gaining Cooperation
Learn effective tools for gaining cooperation in your household or classroom.

6). Mindful Parenting Tips: Long Term Effects Of Punishment
Punishment may work if all you are interested in is stopping the behavior in the moment. Beware of the long range results of punishment: Resentment, Rebellion, Revenge or Retreat.