Struggling with potty training

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Our daughter is 2yrs 8 months. We have been gently trying to encourage potty training for months (honestly at this point it feels like years) with 0 success. Nursery agree that shes ready for it and perfectly capable. She can tell me when shes going either no.1 or no.2, gets upset sometimes after pooing or weeing, stays dry most nights, can tell me what the potty and toilet are for and knows to wipe/ wash hands/ flush after. But still we have no luck actually getting anything in either the potty or the toilet it just ends up in pants/ trousers/ the floor after being held on to for up to 4 hours. I'm getting frustrated despite my best efforts not to. We've tried sticker charts, chocolate bribes, 'nana and grandad will be so impressed/ your friends at nursery use the potty/ its such a big girl skill' literally everything we can think of. What are we doing wrong?!

One of mine struggled. Sat then on potty in front of cartoons

Lots of encouraging.

In the end with one I went back to pill upstairs and tried again a few months later. It was 10 changes in nursery. . which one day was my limit. A few months later all went great. Little accidents and night good.

DD was 3 but a long weekend of being bare bottomed at home and she had it cracked.

I’m pretty sure if there hasn’t been progress over several weeks (never mind months) then they aren’t really ready.

What method are you actually using and how long have you consistently tried it for meaning staying home and concentrating on nothing else? Just wondering if it’s the ‘gently trying to encourage’ that’s the issue and training in a clearer/firmer way may work better for her.

Potty timing is the key. I gave up and tried again a few months later and my daughter cracked it instantly without accidents. Give it a little while longer and then stickers on the potty and a plastic medal to wear each time she is successful.