Day 1 and she's already bored.

[Lottiebugz22]

My daughter is 2.5 years old.
Started potty training today and she doesn't seem to realise she needs a wee before she's already going so it's been a case of putting her on the potty mid wee and lots of praise after. Is she not ready? She doesn't want to go on the potty anymore already.

No she's not ready
Back to nappies and save yourself the ball ache
Trust me, I know I'm right

She's not ready.
Let her lead. Have the potty sitting around. One day she'll start using it. Take it from there. You doing it in your timeline just frustrates you as it won't work!

She’s not ready. She needs to be able to know when she’s going, if she’s not developed that sensation yet, then it’s too early.

See, I disagree.
My eldest was like this. We persevered and she was dry in a week.
It wasn’t that she didn’t know she needed a wee exactly it was more that she simply didn’t understand what the consequences of that really were.
Wearing an extremely absorbent nappy all her life meant that she didn’t know what needing a wee lead to.
She needed a few days of weeing on the floor to understand the connection.
People always say ‘wait til they show you they’re ready’, if we’d waited she would have gone to school in nappies. As it was, we made her give it a go and she was dry night and day in a week.
I would give it a few days at least.

Tonight she actually took her pants off herself and sat on the potty and said she was doing a wee. She did a little trickle. She clapped herself when she got off. She's obviously taken something from today which I think is a good sign. Thanks for all the answers. Leaving potty out and letting her lead tomorrow.

That sounds very positive.
I wouldn’t give up just yet.

We are following the method in the book Oh Crap Potty Training method and the author suggests this is perfectly normal and expected - to be potty trained the child needs to move from "Clueless" to "I'm Peeing" to "I Peed" to "I need to pee". If a child has worn a nappy all their life how are they supposed to understand the sensation of wetting themselves, let alone know that they need to do a wee before it happens? If you are expecting your child to know this from the very first day of potty training you may be keeping them in nappies for another year or more.

With my DS he was clueless on the first day but within a couple of days he was starting to understand he was going to pee before it happened, and from your update it sounds as though this is happening with your daughter too.