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[quote=Anonymous]Started 1st day of 3 day potty training with 2.2 year old today and it was a disaster.
I know some will say that is young, but the instruction claims this age is actually ideal for this method.
My husband and I feel like we are in Potty Purgatory - we stayed in all day, kept the TV off and blocked ourselves with her in the kitchen/dining room where there is no carpet or upholstered furniture.  We kept her entertained all day with lots of activities, but we also cleaned up pee every hour.
DD was excited this morning to say goodbye to her diapers and pull-ups and run around the house naked all day.
She has happily guzzled water all day and pee'd at least a dozen times...9 of which were on the floor (at least it's not carpet).
The morning was OK, she pooped in the potty once because I saw the look on her face and whisked her right to the potty. Then she pee'd on the floor a few times but we got her to the potty about halfway through a few of them.
After her nap it has been downhill fast.  It seems she is fully aware that she is peeing on the floor and I think she sometimes does it intentionally.  A few hours ago I asked her if she needed to go, she told me no and then looked right at me while she pee'd on the floor less than a minute later.  The one time she did pee on the potty was when I happened to persuade her to sit for a few minutes while we read a story.  I know you are supposed to wait until they tell you they have to go, but that doesn't seem to be happening.  She is perfectly content will going on the floor or even in her highchair at dinner.  When I ask her if she is going to try to pee on the potty next time she says yes.  When I ask her if she is going to pee on the floor, she says yes.  Uhg.
We give her an M&M when she goes, and have been practicing over the last couple of weeks, she even goes a daycare a few times per week.  But she only goes when she happens to be on the potty, she has never once advised that she has to go.  She is aware when she goes, protests diapers and can pull up/down her own pants.  
Either she doesn't recognize the sensation in time to get to the potty, or she is not happy about this and peeing on the floor intentionally.
Is this normal for day one?  When will she start sitting on the potty intentionally not because she started to go on the floor and Mommy whisked her over to the potty.
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