I wish DS would do this!

BTW, AJP, we don't have the telling off problem because we have the rule that if you tell of Liebling then you comfort him (and if DH tells DS off and he comes to me I give him back, just as if I tell of DS and he goes to DH then DH gives him to me). This isn't to stop us telling him off, it's to make him realise that we still love him even when we enforce a rule. It works because when we tell him off now and he cries he comes up to us for a cuddle!

Hmmm. I don't think he's sneaky enough yet to use this as a way of getting more cuddles, not that he needs/wants them, but may have to evaluate this policy.