I'm not naive enough to believe that that anything that happens while parenting is how it will always be, but getting Lily to sleep is very easy. I have it down to a science.
I'm the one that does it every night. Typically, around 9:30, we ask her if she's ready to go to sleep. If it's 9:30, she'll almost always say 'yes'. She'll give her mom a kiss, then grab my hand and say 'bye' a few times as we walk down the hall to her room. I let her flick off the light switch, and from there it takes 5 to 10 minutes of rocking or waiting in the room. She rarely fusses or complains in any way, and almost always sleeps solidly till 6AM the next day.
I'm sure, as her mind matures and expands the ability to reason, cajole & negotiate - there might be some changes that come our way. She'll start to see some benefit to extending the day or realize that she can say 'no' and stay up - that it's an option.
Still, this is a shock to me. I have a hard time going to sleep, at my age. I never thought any child, at any age, willfully went to bed.
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