So here we are about 8 weeks later and well no progress!

My daughter is now 24months. She wakes dry in the morning (12-13hrs later), dry after nap (2-4hrs), she is in panties all day but has used the potty maybe a total of like 5times in 2 months! She now holds her pee for 3-4+ hr stretches during the day. When she needs to pee she usually knows right before, gives me that look, yells pee or potty and runs for it...never making it.

She is a very determined, persistent, strong willed, busy child.

I have tried everything, being calm and nice, being firm, rewards, down right bribery. I've sat her on the potty with videos (potty videos, her favorite shows). She does NOT use the potty. I sat her on the potty for 1.5 hrs one day (she hadn't peed in 3hrs when I first sat her on it) she watched her videos with great enthusiasm...when I FINALLY gave up after 1.5hrs she ran off and peed while running down the hall. gahhhhhhhhh

I don't think she has a CLUE HOW to pee. She has everything else figured out but CANNOT or WLL NOT pee on command.

I have no idea how to teach this. She is a very busy child, she is so busy while on the potty, singing, talking, touching everything that I don't think her body relaxes enough to pee (no matter how long she sits or how long it's been since she last peed). It's not like I am making her sit on the potty every 20minutes, she hasn't peed in 3-4hrs there IS pee in her bladder she could squeeze out if she knew how (or wanted to). At times it looks like she is trying (we try to demonstrate how to force pee out - which is hard to do lol).

She KNOWS what the potty is for as her daycare friend uses one here (for a few months) and my daughter watches all the time. She watches myself and my husband use the toilet.

We have the small floor potty and a toilet top potty...she happily sits on both.

SO...do we just keep on going? I no longer tell her to go on the potty...I no longer ask if she needs to go. I do remind her throughout the day "you are in panties, don't pee on the chair" don't pee on the... I think she is listening and not peeing on anything (but she isn't peeing!!!!! She just waits hours and hours and hours then ends up peeing while she runs. Or she pee's during nap and nighttime.

I still use a nap/night diaper because she is NOT a morning person and if we even enter her room first thing after she wakes, well, we all suffer. So we leave her for a good 20-30+ minutes before she is ready for the day to start...and while she is still dry when we enter the room we have to go slowly with the start of the day or she just doesn't cope and the rest of the morning is shot. Some days we can get her onto the potty and she'll pee (a few times) but most days she pees on the way there. I don't believe we'd succeed in forcing her out of bed to make it to the potty to pee until she has started successfully making herself pee on it during the day...because we'd end up with a miserable, half asleep toddler on a potty against her will that still doesn't know HOW to pee.

Thoughts? I've potty trained many kids in my work over the years...I've yet to meet one that even remotely resembles my child!!!!