Thanks for the reply, sometimes you think you are the only one floating around out here in mother-hood-land who is dealing with this problem. None of my girlfriends are experiencing this problem at all, one friend who I asked when I asked "how do you get your daughter to stay in bed" simply replied, "she knows she's not allowed out!", well yes DS also knows he's not allowed out, doesn't seem to stop him anyway!!

Anyway, going to try and stick with it, sometimes it seems so hard when you are on your own (DH on deployment overseas till christmas, so its just us 2 till then) and I would like to get some sleep before DH comes home!

Just keep perservering and putting him back to bed back to bed back to bed... just quickly when you were returning DD to bed did you do the no-contact no-talking Supernanny thing, or the firm voice "Back to Bed" thing? Tresillian went with the firm voice, but not sure if its working for me as I seem to get worked up when I talk to him , plus they suggested taking the dummy off him and closing the door till he figured out that I meant what I said... that seemed to be working in Tresillian but doesn't seem to be working so well since getting home, it makes a huge difference to have someone standing with you giving you moral support during these issues!

Thanks for your reply...