Potty Training - Lisle,IL

I do home daycare and find other providers with that attitude - they refuse to help the parents basically. I just don't understand it! I mean really it's easier once the kid IS potty trained, why not spend a hard week to get them there?

But alas I guess everything else is good at the daycare so you will have to put up with this. I personally, as a mom, would send her in panties, ask them to set a timer for 30 minutes THIS WEEK ONLY and tell them that really she had great success this weekend. You can not potty train in a weekend, it's impossible. With only having a few accidents a day she is better then most kids at that stage of training and I would NOT ruin it because of stupid daycare rules.

Keep it up! It's a new physical skill she's learning. Just think if she hadn't achieved perfection after 2 days of using a spoon, or after 2 days of dressing herself? It's a lot to ask of a kid to be reliably potty trained in 2 days. It sounds like she's doing GREAT though (and so are you!), so keep it up! Okay, so she might wet her pants at daycare. So what? She won't be the first kid, and she won't be the last. Just make sure you tell her teacher that she has been going to the potty every half hour, and make sure they take her every half hour! I had to really get on our preschool on behalf of my younger daughter, because I found out they decided she was "too young" to be potty trained and put her back in diapers! I was furious. Got the principal involved, and she backed me up. They were just too lazy to take her to the potty because most of the other 2 year olds were still in diapers. Anyway, once we got that handled, my daughter did great! I think she had one or two accidents that first week, but after a week of potty training, she was totally good to go.

The thing about potty training is that you just have to keep at it. Do not confuse the message. Your child knows she's supposed to go in the potty, so don't re-introduce diapers/pullups (except at naps/night time, if you need to). Keep teaching her, and helping her learn this process, and stay positive. Make sure the other adults in her life stay positive and help her as well. She will have the hang of this in no time! Good job, mama!

wow.. you are awesome mom. at 2 starting potty training already. well, generally girls get trained faster than boys.
with my son, surprises would work, whenever he tells me to go, I give him 1 fruit snack, one Grape, 1 candy or something.
Put her in pull ups. (they have huggies, cold feeling) so if they go little bit, would realize immidiately and will tell, Once she will have habit of telling, she will tell you guys in few days before she has to go.
One more thing, dont confuse her in panties and pull ups.. just keep pull ups for a while, and then once she starts telling before she has to go, you can transfer her in panties. .. well good luck in this venture

I'd recommend that you keep her in pull-ups and whenever you've got a day at home with her don't put ANY bottoms on her - that's a much faster way to teach her to use the potty than using panties.

My daughter was also 2 when she began to show an interest in the potty. It sounds like you're doing everything right. It might be confusing to her if you stop after 2 days. Maybe give her a little more time. If she's not ready then go back to pull ups with continuing to ask every 30 minutes to go potty.
Earning a reward (bribe LOL) definitely works. I would give my daughter 2 of those Welches gummy candy for a pee & 4 if she went poop. Plus, we had quite a cheering party/dance every time she went.
To get your daughter to tell you, possibly when you ask and she says yes, say something like "Did you say you need to go potty? YAY! Can I hear you ask again?" Just cheer it up. Maybe even give her bribes when she attempts to ask. LOL
We did a LOT of cheering during the process, which I think my daughter liked the cheering more than the candy.
Oh and yes, for now, I would take off the pull up when she gets home from school. Say something like "teacher told me that you can start wearing panties to school when we're doing REALLY well with going potty!! Yay!!"
Again, if she needs to go back to a pull up, no big deal. It could be a month from now that she wants to try again. Especially if you continue to encourage the potty.
To get my daugher to poo in the potty, when she would go in her pullup or panties, I would ask her if she wanted to help me put the poo in the potty and flush. At first she didn't. But the next time she followed me. Soon she was very excited about flushing. (Just keep getting excited about everything she does)
Good luck! You're doing great.