MD, just fake it till you make it. Maybe you could carry around a small notebook with you and write down everyone's names, then a short description of them to help you remember who they are? I'm sure you will do great!

Cass, that is AWESOME news, congratulations!!!!! I never doubted that you would knock their socks off!

Arte, it wont matter what you do, there will always be times when the sibling rivalry does your head in. It sounds like he is picking up on you paying more attention to A ATM so he is playing on it bigtime I hope it settles soon though.

Jaz, that's why I stopped using my name a few years back, didn't want to take the chance. Plus I tell no one about this site so there is no chance of anyone putting two and two together.

MP, don't feel bad about N not TT yet, as I said, A is only doing it because I'm making him, not because he is truly 100% ready for it.

So further to that, he is going OK with it. I'm basically just taking him to the loo every now and then and he always does a wee without fail, and sometimes a poo but sometimes he will tell me he needs to go (either 1 or 2's) so he is getting the idea slowly, but for the most part it is just me taking him and removing the 'i'm so busting I can't get to the toilet in time' senario LOL. But we do have at least 1 accident a day which isn't too bad - I can live with that.