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At 2.2 years old (whatever that means...just say newly turned 2 year old) it is really really really really hard for a child to A) recognized/acknowldedg the full bladder sensation B) recognize the need to allow time to get the potty C) connect A and B

It is asking A LOt in a small amount of time. Is there a reason you are rushing it so much??? Just like any learned activity it takes time. Did you make your child walk everyday when she was still crawling too? And given your experience you might need to change your strategy. Or wait a little bit. Try again in another 3 months or so (when your child is 2.5 years old).[/quote]

I agree with the first part. I don't agree with the second part. If you wait until a child can do A, B, and C, the child may be in diapers for a long time, when alternatively the parent could just put the child on the potty regularly. I suppose it's true that the child isn't truly toilet-trained until the child can do it all by itself (say, by first grade), but I didn't really care if the child was "truly toilet-trained"; my goal was to get the child out of diapers.[/quote]

+1.  both of my kids took a few weeks to be potty trained right before and around they turned 2.  both were out of diapers by 25 months.  i think it is too much to do the 3 day method when they are a young 2.  it is a process, and there will be accidents, and yes, there will be purposeful peeing on the floor.  parenting should not be boot camp.

i think parents want perfection, so if there is a day of accidents they say "oh, s/he must not be ready yet, back to diapers."  kids need multiple days/weeks of having accidents, sitting on the potty, recognizing what the whole process is about.  they need parental (and day care/nanny) support and encouragement and they need us to get over the fact that we have to change wet and sometimes poopy underpants.  they need consistency.  so if you decide it is time (and yes, OP, your child is showing plenty of signs that she is ready) then you ditch the diapers and stick with it.  but you go about your normal life (with 2 changes of underpants/shorts).  you don't saturate her with liquids, you don't stay in the house for fear of an accident.  you just live your life, you take her potty, praise her when she goes in the toilet, explain where pee and poo go when she has an accident.

in essence, just be an everyday parent.[/quote]

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