Need Help with a Potty Training Issue

C.,

I know how frustrating potty training can be. I used the exact same routine with my son and had a lot of problems. So when my daughter was 18 months old I took her and let her pick out a potty. I put it in the dinning room(the center of the house) So she was close enough to it at all times. I put her in panties all the time( no diaper)
I let her pick out her own panties. That made her Excited to wear them. I explained that if she pee peed in them we had to throw them in the trash and they would be gone gone for ever. I asked her regularly if she needed to potty and she would either say no or she would run to her potty. She has her own roll of tissue and I let her wipe herself first.I don't know why but that excited her too. She was completely potty trained by 21 months.
I think the key is to encourage without pushing. Make it fun....I finally potty trined my son by hanging a target on a tree and letting him try to hit it. My brother potty trained his son to go #2 in the potty with cookies. If you go in the potty then you get a treat.

There are so many methods that it is hard to say what might work for your little angel. If she is independent...try letting her take some of the control.

Good Luck!!!

I have a boy, although I have heard it is easier to potty train a girl, I'm not so sure. It is totally normal for a child to do all the right things at a daycare or babysitter's house. I guess because that person is not their parent, they learn to potty and give up the bottle faster for them. I'm not sure if it is because they know they can get away with things more when they are at home, or if in their little minds they are trying to impress the babysitter. I'm not sure why that is, but I had the same issue with my son concerning the bottle, potty, and cup.
When I potty trained my son I would take him in the bathroom and ask him to potty, sometimes he would, sometimes he wouldn't. I would ask him at different times if he needed to go and especially before I gave him a bath or put him to sleep, I would try to get him to potty. I gave him stickers when he pottied, I would reward him each time in some way or another. I also put big boy underwear on him when we were just hanging out at the house. It is very frustrating to potty train a 2 year old...they pee and poop in their big kid undies, but I promise you, they do not like the feel of that stuff in their underwear and they will get the hint. It can get messy and gross and it will frustrate you at times, but you have to just grin and bear it. Try to stay positive and encouraging for her. I promise, she will get the hang of it.
Being 2 is wild for them, I'm sure. They are in this strange stage between little baby and big kid. They start testing you, not sure if they mean to, but they do. They form their own little personality and vocabulary..sometimes you don't like what they say and do. Terrible twos are really terrible at times...three isn't much better..lol. My son is five and this stage is awsome! Hang in there though, she is learning so many new things and she will learn how to potty eventually too. Just be consistent with her and try to stay up beat and try to make using the potty a fun experience. I know it sounds strange, but it will work eventually.

I tried to potty train my son at 2 and he would not do it for me so i just left him in diapers and one morning I got up and he was on the pot and peeing by himself. So I think that maybe shes not ready at home. Just let her go at her own pace and eventually she will go on her own. My son is almost 3 now and has fully trained himself. I also have a son who is 15 months and he is already potty training.

Leave her alone for a while. Let her decide when it's time to learn. The fact that she's going at school shows that she's on her way, but she's only 2. She has plenty of time, so don't force her. Try gently reminding her, every once in a while, without flat out making her go sit down. She'll come around.

Hi, C.!
When my son was small, he would eat certain things at his grandmother's house that he refused to eat at home. It was an associational issue. He associated those things with Grandma's house and that's how he wanted to keep it. Maybe it's the same with your potty training issue.
A friend of mine uses the sticker system to get her child to potty train at home. He gets to color in his star and put a sticker on his chart every time he goes potty at home. Perhaps this would work for you as well. It would give him something different to associate with potty training at home versus potty training at the sitter's.