My boys are 7.5 and 5, i have also a 2.5 year old daughter too, and they all have separate rooms, my eldest gets up in the middle of the night and wakes up ds2, and they scream and shout ands giggle and play with lego etc and so wake up dd, my dp got in from his friends at 1.30am on friday night(or i guess sat morning!) and came in to find ds1 playing on the sims on the pc, and said he was ok thanks, he didnt feel like being in bed right now! and of course he had to go and wake ds2 up and they were both down here, this has been going on for well over a year, but in the last couple of months, has been getting much much worse, i was woken at 3am this morning to all 3 of them in my daughters room chucking her toys about and winding her up, now i have tried everything, initially when it all started, i told them off and then i rewarded them if they stayed in bed i have even bribed them both (im not proud of that) NOTHING works, and yes i do admit, that i have only occasionaly smakced there little butts and put them back to bed and they have been yelling and crying and ive left with a "you better stay there or i WILL come back and smack your buts again!" i barely even get back into bed before i can hear them up and going for each other again! - im going out of my mind! Dp went in this morning and sorted them out and said if they get up again he would take away their favourite toys for 3 days, but they stayed there for 5 minutes, and then were up again, and so he took the toys and they yelled about it, but then 5 minutes later they were up and squeeling at each other again - NOTHING we do makes any impact at all! im so fed-up with their behavior its unreal! They truly truly couldnt give a crap what me or dp do, they ignore us and do what they like anyway! If you can help or give us ANY advice i will be very very grateful! Otherwise im shipping them off to boot-camp!