I appologise for this thread from the start because I am feeling all emotional at the moment which doesnt help. I am 25wks pregnant with my second and have a little boy who will be 3yrs at the end of June. We have been very lucky with our little boy in many ways, especially with his sleeping. he has slept through the night pretty much from about 8wks old and although he has never really slept though the day, we can't complain coz the nights have always been ours. We put him in a big boy bed just after christmas and I thought I may have had a few problems with him getting up, but he's been great. In the last couple of months though, we have noticed that he has been increasingly grummpy and hard to handle come evening time which is normal if he hasn't had a 30minute power nap in the afternoon, but where as he would go to bed at 7pm and have his 12hrs sleep, he's still going to bed at the same time, but staying awake untill past 9pm sometimes 10pm playing around, which is then having an affect on his behaviour the next day as he is still waking up at the same time. I have tried changing his pattern so that he has a snooze in the afternoon which he refuses, we have tried putting him to bed later and that doesnt work either. I honestly don't know what do do anymore as he is not the type of child to sit down for half an hour watching t.v-he is constantly on the go and his lack of sleep is having a general affect on his behaviour during the day, which is also having an affect on me too as I am getting really tired now and just need to rest some days. Really sorry for such a long thread, but just need to vent of some frustation