Well well well, guess I was right about bed time

Bed time with my 3 year old has been a nightmare recently. We say good night and then spend the next hour trying to get her to stay in her room. About a week ago my husband started insisting we "rock" her to sleep like her grandma does when she's over there. I said "no, she needs to know how to sleep on her own" he said that he was fed up with the current routine (it was frustrating) and rocking works (the rocking is basically she lies in bed and we jiggle her).

I didnt like it as a solution, then I got mad because rocking her aggravated my carpal tunnel. Last night was the worst, he was putting her to bed and she wouldnt listen, she wouldnt try to sleep, he ended up getting really frustrated. I went in there and it took me a long time to get her to stay in her bed. She was screaming/crying tired, and she kept getting up.

Well I posed to him that we should do something like ferber. That when I put her to bed I would tell her I had to do something and would be back to give her another kiss if she stayed in bed. I did that the first time and when I got back she needed to potty. There was no fighting to go back in bed after the potty. The second time (ten minutes later) I gave her lots of hugs and kisses and told her I would be gone fifteen minutes. Yeah...there was no third time. She conked right out. It felt very low stress and she was more willing to let me leave the room because I was going to come back. She just laid in bed, looked at a book, and played with her stuffies whenever I was gone.

We'll see how tomorrow goes, but for now I'm smug as shit.