If it were me I would wait a little longer. Trying to potty train before they are ready makes it frustrating for both of you. Wait until she shows signs she is ready and it usually takes les than a week.
The way I knew my son was ready was when he started telling me he needed to change. I bought him underwear and it only took about 4 days.

My daughter is 2 1/2 and is still not trained. I think leaving her to do her business is betting than standing beside her. For some reason my daughter always used it better when I turned my back or acted like I was folding towels and my focus wasn't on her. Then she'd smile and I'd give her an award because she'd potty. Being consistent is also the key. My little girl when I first started went fine then after about a month would fight me. Now she goes if I take her but won't go on her own. Sometimes if I let her run around naked she'll run to her potty because she knows she's not suppose to wet the floor. Although she has had a few accidents. Give it some more time and don't worry she'll eventually get the hang of it.

I've posted about this issue a few times in the past... so, I'm just going to cut and paste again:

I would back off completely. Your daughter is still young and there's a wide range for kids and potty training "readiness." While some kids may train at 2 years old , others may not be ready until they are 3 and 3 1/2.

I believe that you really have to wait until your child is ready. There are only a few things in life that you can not force your child to do and potty training is one of them.

This is what I did with my children and it worked like a charm: When they were about 2 or 2 1/2, I bought them a potty chair and I stuck it in their bathroom. When they asked about it, I said, "Oh that's your potty chair. When you're ready to use the potty, that will be your special chair." I didn't say another word about it.

When they showed an interest in the chair and occasionally peed in the potty, I took them to Target and let them pick out their own underwear. Whatever they wanted. I went home, stuck it in their dreser drawer and said, "Whenever you're ready, you can try wearing your underwear." My son was ready that night and never looked back. He had maybe 1 or 2 accidents.

My daughter wasn't ready for a few months and then one day she pulled out her underwear and said, "I'm ready." She had a few accidents but was determined in a just a few short days, she basically trained herself.

I don't think kids work well under pressure. Children know that they hold the cards on the potty issue and the more you pressure them, the more likely they are to back-off and maybe even regress.


Good Luck! "

My daughter turns two this month and I am SO ready to be done with diapers...but I don't think she's ready yet either. She does have some signs of "potty readiness" as outlined in my parenting book (regular BM's and stays dry for 2 hr blocks of time, likes to flush the toilet and knows the words for using it). I have a potty in the bathroom and she will take it apart and play with it, use it as a stool when she brushes her teeth, sometimes sit her dolls on it...but she's not crazy about sitting on it herself and if she does sit on it, then she'll only do it while clothed.

I agree with the previous post about not pushing it and kids not working well under pressure. I'll let her get more used to the potty before I try sitting her on it on a regular basis. And the holidays are coming up, we're going to be traveling and we're going to have company and her schedule is going to be turned upside down several times. So I figure this is probably not the greatest time to try and master a new skill.

Good luck!

Thanks for all your advice, I think she does need to wait some more time. I guess I am just feeling some pressure, my mom-in-law seems to think she should have been potty trained by 18 months. (My youngest son actually was, of course he had 2 older brothers to watch and want to catch up to.) So she has been pretty verbal about her opinions as far as my daughter goes. I will just have to let it go in one ear and out the other. I know when she is ready it will be much easier.

Oh leave it to the MIl's who think they know everything, LOL! is there any kind of reward you can offer her for sitting on the potty etc?? we did lip gloss and my daughter went nuts over it.. everytime she sat she got to hold it and try a little then when she started going potty she actually got to put in on herself and we bought special ones that were just for her as a reward..

sounds like she might not be quite ready yet,.. we stated training around 26 months

OMG my daughter is over 3 and still not even close to be trained! i find it discouraging that some parents have their kids trained in a few days. i've been at it for months! but we've had some stressful things occur (moving was the big one... and i gave up on the potty while we were moving). and she just had her first visitation with her father and i know he didn't even attempt to put her on the potty. now i'm back to square one all over again!!! she fights me all the time... at least before this visit she was going... i want to just put her in underwear... but i am a single mom, i work a lot and she's at the sitters a lot (and i don't know for sure how consistent she is either!) i wish there was a button you could push and THERE... potty training complete!

Don't be there with her. My daughter couldn't go ever if I was sitting there with her. (Could you?) I would give her a book, and leave her ~10-20 minutes, and when I come to check on her, she's done. I usually waited to hear her pee (cause otherwise I can't tell she did), that might take less than a minute, and then leave. Also, her routine varies, she doesn't poop every day at the same time, or even every day.