hmm.. I know what you're saying Bec, and would love to believe my child is that innocent. But I find it hard to believe that shutting all the doors to the loungeroom to hide in there and play with the xbox - or whatever has taken his fancy - is just an uncontrollable impulse.. seems fairly calculated to me LOL.

And when he misbehaves and looks at me.. it's more of a "i'm busted" look than anything, not a "am I allowed to do this" look.

I dunno.. maybe I give him too much credit.. and should take more of the blame LOL.

We do try to keep things out of reach - things like the video camera etc.. but our computers are always in reach, the tv is always in reach.. and he has free access to pens & paper, and is generally good and asks for paper to draw on. I think it's important for them to get into trouble, it's how they learn. If I kept all the pens out of reach, how would he learn that you really don't draw on anything but paper? It would all be theory, and no practical.