I'll give the "time out" a go. Nothing else seems to be working. I suspect that he won;t care about being put in his cot/room/etc away from me. He quite easily amuses himself....quite frustrating really.

I dunno why he does it. I don't believe that he is doing it to hurt or be vicious, maybe more of a thing to do. Of course he gets a reaction, but it is always negative, so I dunno why he persists.

He does other stuff too which pushes my buttons. We have a sideboard in the dining room and the doors are very easy to open. Over the past few months, he has managed to get everything out of this cupboard and strew it across the floor. There is just a box of wrapping paper and sting in there now and I leave it there to make a point that he shouldn't be in that cupboard (but if he does get stuck into it, it doesn't really matter....I don't let him in on that fact though). But EVERY day he goes into that cupbaord, despiute having 2 cupboards of his own to go into and play in. And if I say "no" in a very firm voice, he looks at me, gives me this cheeky grin and keeps going!!! OMG, what a little bugger! So when I get up to go over to him, he runs away laughing like it is a game. Sigh...I think I have one of "those" kids!! No mum is gunna let my son play with their kids for fear of him turning them into deliquents!!! LOL

But I love him to bits!