[Sipper]

I am reading this post and thinking in the past tense. Finally. I had tried every trick I read or could think of with Grace. We have poster boards full of stickers that were hanging in the bathroom, every character panties that are made (so she would feel bad about peeing on someone) special potty songs, etc. After six months of begging, pleading, and driving myself crazy as to 'why can't she just get it', she did, and on her own time and own terms. Now, we are more at the point of visiting every public restroom in the country - I think I liked the peeing in the panties better! It really makes the parent much more stressed than the kid. They know when they are ready and they will do it. We even went on a Disney cruise and told her if she did not do 'big girl potty' she would have to stay in the baby pool. That child did not wet even once on the entire cruise and told me everytime she had to potty. I was thrilled. We came home and she went right back to peeing in her pants. But, again, when she was ready she just did it all at once around her 3rd birthday. She began #1 and #2 in the potty and she always tells us loudly (no matter where we are) mommy, pee or poopy. We will work on some more appropriate phrases next but for now, I will gladly accept it. And, her baby brother seems pretty interested in what she does on the big potty so hopefully, I won't turn the rest of my hair gray with potty training him - but I do hear it is true that boys take longer. Keep your sanity and they really do want to do it - when they are ready - not you.