I've booked some time off work later this month to make a 3rd attempt at potty training my almost 3 year old dd.
We tried in May and she wasn't ready - she could and would pee and poo on the toilet and understood the concept but she didn't have the awareness of when she needed to go so when left without a nappy would wet herself and sounded genuinely surprised shen she started to pee. Persevered for a couple of days but she was getting a bit grumpy being put on the toilet constantly so we left it.
About a month later she developed chicken pox and had a lot of spots in her nappy area and we were advised to give her as much time as possible without her nappy so we just kept an eye on things and she still seemed surprised when she started to pee - so no pressure we just left it.
We're now a few months down the line. She's started to sometimes say when she is /has just done a pee. She's also getting a bit more upset when dirtying in her nappy (hides away, asks you not to look at her) and is becoming prone to taking her nappy off once she's wet it - (or even worse has dirtied it) but she has now completely gone off sitting on the toilet.
She used to always have a sit on it and would usually do the toilet but now whenever I ask her if she wants to sit on the bit toilet she just says no thanks. If I do sit her on it she's straight off and says she doesn't need.
She drinks a lot so she can be quite wet which is an added challenge - she soaked though a pair of pull up pants in less than an hour this week - partly because she'd just been swimming and managed to drink half the pool!
Any tips for how to approach it this time - I had been trying to use sweeties as a reward when she did it but that didn't work - in fact it made it worse as she was constantly asking to go to the toilet, not doing anything then asking for a sweetie.
I think she's ready or not far off and I'd like to have made some progress before she moves up into the next room in the nursery as most if not all the kids in there are toilet trained now and I'm worried she'll become more aware/embarrassed about being in a nappy.
Any suggestions welcome!