Potty Trained at Home but Won't Use Strange Potties

How to help her? Well, go to the potty with her 5 times. Or 10. Every time she says she has to go, go. My kids are potty trained (3 and 5) but they don't like to use strange potties. You should have seen us on our 2 day road trip! I think my 3 year old held in his poo for almost three days! But I still pulled over every time they said they had to go.
I know. It drives you nuts. But this too will pass. Just give it a little time.
I really think that pull ups confuse them. No wonder she doesn't want to use the potty at preschool. To her, she is still wearing a diaper. I really recommend using only panties at this point. You can always hose off the car seat. Been there. Done that.

I am having similar issues in that my son is wonderfully potty trained at daycare but not so much at home. For the car seat I do have a solution: the piddle pad. Another mother gave me hers and it is wonderful: a thin pad you sit in the seat of the car seat. If you daughter does go to the bathroom while in the carseat you only have to wash the piddle pad and not the entire car seat. Here is a link http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3557154 Mine looks a little different as it does not git over the buckle like the one pictured does, but it works wonderfully.
I agree with the no more pull ups. To you and I it might be different in that they can pull them on an off if they have to go, but to the child I think it does feel more like a diaper and they know they can go whenever they want. In my daycare they won't even use pull ups.
At home, I have resorted to using treats to get my son to potty and he is ok, but certainly not as consistent as he is at school. He is almost 2 1/2 and we have not had soiled clothes at school for more than a month.

When my daughter was three we took a weekend trip to S.C. and she would not use the self flushers at the rest stops and would only pee in McDonald's toilets for some reason. We stopped at Cracker Barrel for lunch and she refused to go there so after lunch we had to find a McDonald's! She was fine at home and pre-school. Glad she outgrew that stage!

With my daughter, she's afraid of the automatic flush. Sometimes she will really work herself up, but if I hold her, she'll go on the potty. The key is that I have to be in the stall with her, supporting her, because the big potties are pretty intimidating to her.

A couple of moms already touched on the self-flushing potties. A solution we still use: drape a piece of toilet paper over the "eye" of the potty. The little ones are sometimes too small and the toilet can't "see" them, so it flushes. A mom I met once also suggested keeping post-its in your purse, for those "eyes" that are on the wall, rather than on the pipes on top of the toilet (I hope that all made sense.)

Another suggestion, for your travel potty: keep a few old diapers handy. You can open them up, and "line the travel potty" with them. It makes clean-up SO much easier. . . you just fold up the diaper like you used to, and hit the potty with an antibacterial wipe. VOILA!!

Happy travels!
M.