I need help, potty training a girl 28 months?

Back off. There is no rush, and right now all you're doing is creating a negative association with the potty. Making her sit there for an hour must feel to her like she is being punished for some horrible failure or crime she doesn't even understand.

At day care they probably only give her the opportunity to sit on the potty three times a day, no pressure. And she probably does because she follows the older kids' example, which makes the potty a kind of privilege instead of an obligation.

It reminds me of how my youngest started wanting to use the toilet before bed around his second birthday. He wanted to copy his big brother. He wasn't ready to really train yet though. The physical control needed to consistently voluntarily release took another 6 months or so.

Still it only seems to work if he wants to go and is allowed to, not if I tell him to go and he has to perform.

Making a child sit on a potty until she just happens to pee has nothing to do with potty training.

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Wait a few more months. I have a neice almost that same age (turned 2 last June) and although my sister has placed her pull ups back many months ago and has been frequently introduced to a training toilet, even she isn't potty trained yet.

My older sister was ready and trained at 18 months but that's not very common lol

She's on the young side for potty training. She may go sometimes when they set her on it, but that doesn't mean that she has the physical ability to be potty trained. (Which means -- recognizing the need to go, holding it long enough to get herself to the potty [or ask to be taken], and then voluntarily releasing it.

Most kids are closer to 3, or past 3 before they get to where they can do that.

Please do not force her to sit on the potty for an hour at a time, hoping to 'catch' something. At best you WILL just 'catch' something -- more likely you'll upset and frustrate her, and make actual potty training harder when the time comes.

And bribes don't work either in a child who lacks the physical ability to do what you are asking of her.

(I'd also, frankly, be concerned about a daycare that is pushing toddlers this young to potty train -- especially if it's been going on for 6 months already! [Did they REALLY start before she was 2???? WHAT exactly do they think is the rush?])

What is the routine at daycare? An hour is way too long to be having a toddler sit on the toilet, that's making potty training stressful and negative. I would ask daycare what their routine is, how much they push when kids refuse, what time of day, etc and see how closely you can copy that.

She isn't ready.

I certainly hope you mean her daycare encourages her to sit on the potty, rather than forces her to. Because forcing her to sit on the toilet at daycare would be a huge violation.

Wait til she's ready. She isn't yet. Wait until age 3. Wait til she's ready! She learn quick when she's ready!

Let it go for now..Try in a few months..

Do they use pull ups at daycare? If not and you are using them at home its probably confusing her.

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