"mylittlelisa" wrote in message
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We have been trying to train our 2 1/2 yo daughter for almost a
month. It started out kind of rough and we switched from panties to
pullups (at daycare's request). After that, things were good. She
would sit on the potty a couple of times at daycare, sometime
succeeding and sometimes not. On friday, she was dry ALL DAY at
daycare. Yeah. I thought the end was near. She didn't use the potty
at home all night. she went off with my dad saturday night and stayed
dry all night (except for poop, still working on that), and was dry in
the morning. When she came home, failure again. She used to go
really good for me at home, but recently, she had stopped. Whenever I
ask her, she says she doesn't have to go. When she has an accident, I
try not to get mad, but it is getting hard. I know she knows better.
Any suggestions?

Also, on friday, my husband left on a business trip for two weeks,
could this cause her sudden regression at home?


My only suggestion would be that at 2 1/2 you consider successful potty
training gravy and not strictly necessary. Many a successful potty user has
balked once they realize that you mean them to do it *all the time from now
on.* Whether or not she knows what you want and is capable of doing it, she
can have any number of thoughts or feelings on the subject from what a pain
in the neck to have to stop what I am doing to go, to hey it seems Mommy
wants this a lot more than I do I wonder why? to... well anything. Work the
whole process cheerfully and with detachment. If you can't do that, I would
probably recommend abandoning it for now.

If the child were approaching 4 or beyond 4 my thougts might be different.