survived the first night, now, how do I stop her chewing/chasing everything that moves?

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we survived the first night intact, with puppy sleeping in her basket at the side of my bed, one wee stop at 4am, this morning, she is chasing feet, and grabbing at trouser legs and ragging them. I have so far stopped this by saying no sternly, removing her from the trouser leg and putting her down well away and ignoring her. She is jumping up at kids a lot and trying to play rough and tumble with them, if they are at her level, she is all over them licking etc, which they are finding quite offputting. but since they are still just excitable puppies themselves, I cant stop them running about and going a bit loopy.
Just wanting a bit of advice on how to manage and control the kid/puppy insanity which is going on - will this calm down in a few days as she gets more used to things? or can I expect this until puppy is much more grown up.
as you can tell I'm fairly clueless about dogs, I was only 3 when we got my puppy, so I dont remember anything much until I was much older and he was past the puppy stage.

got one ordered!

You do need a crate, and you also need the dog owner's (and parent's) best friend: distraction! Get her loads of chews and toys and use these to distract her from inappropriate behaviour, channeling her energy into more appropriate play.

The jumping up: stand up, fold arms, turn around and walk away. Everyone should do this consistently, she will get the message. No point in saying 'no' she does not speak english! If you want to teach an 'off' or 'stop that' command you need to train it, but I would strongly recomment you use a special word for it (like 'ah un') and not a word in common usage like 'no'. The dog will hear 'no' a thousand times a day in contexts where it means nothing and will become desensitised to it as a command.

The running about and playing sounds like normal puppy and child behaviour, expect more of this as she gets older and has more energy!

I found with my puppy a very high pitched call, just "bababababa" almost in a singing voice IYSWIM is a good distraction and would call her away from trouser legs etc.

i have a 17 month Patterdale. Just as bonkers as the day we got him. Althugh not half as bad as he was. But this morning i had a 10 min episode of him pulling at my trouser leg. Just think its his 'killer' nature!

My first dog was very like this until she was about 5.........