my boy isn't as old yet but I've always taken the tact that I don't fight him on sleep during the day so hopefully he won't fight me at night. Ie if he doesn't want to go to sleep when I put him down (and I give him every opportunity... like todya it took an hour cos he was generating an almighty poo and then took forever to do it! lol), then I just say "okay, up we get". When he was younger i'd try again later, but now I dont' bother. Just put him to bed a bit earlier.

My mum always did 'quiet time' when she had 3 little ones. We could do whatever we want in our rooms, so long as it was quiet and we stayed there. I reckong I'll do the same, cos I really need that break for a bit (to get on bb lol).


forgot to add that this takes the stress out of it for me and we've never had any huge issues with him at night... maybe it's the exhaustion tho lol.