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Thanks for the helpful comments.

Have stuck with the moving him to a separate place / ignoring routine, and that seems to be working better.

Both my wife and I have noticed that Max is a lot better when there's just the two of us, when the kids have gone to bed. Need to work on getting the kids to leave him alone and not get him so excited (I think it's harder to trrain the kids than the dog !)

One other thing Max has started doing is humping my t-shirt / leg (and my son). He doesn't do it to my wife / daughter, so I'm wondering if this is a dominance thing ?

yeah you need to stop that - tell him No in a stern voice every time he does it. Mika used to do that to us at a very early age of 11 weeks and we'd stop him with a gentle tap on the bum and say no. He'll soon learn humping on you is not a good thing.

 

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if he re-offends, announce *Whoops!* cheerfully, or some such casual
indicator, and take him off to his crate for maybe 30-seconds (Yes, i mean
that literally).

I wouldn't put him in his crate - why would you do that, the crate is supposed to be used as a positive thing not negative so it sounds to me as if you're saying that put him in his crate as a punishment thing. If you do that the pup isn't going to want to go near his crate at all!