Parenting Toddlers

This is an on-going issue for us. Peanut is going to the potty! Peanut is refusing to go to the potty! Everyday is different. I’m kind of in a mental rush to get it done before her brother arrives. I have a feeling she’ll want to act like a baby for a while when he gets here. Anyway, I’m trying not to show her my anxiousness to get it done, because she’s likely to regress just to irritate me. Yes, she really does this!
Anyway, she just likes wearing a diaper. I will try her in underpants. Within a little while, she usually goes pee or poop in them (love my big people vocabulary). I change them, and she does it again. She does this because she knows eventually I will get exasperated and put her in a diaper. She’s a smarty. Her father and I have decided to crack down (in a nice, loving way). We went to the store and bought a bunch of underwear. She can soil them all she wants…we’re just going to keep putting them on. Her father’s theory is that eventually she’ll just start using the potty. We are also giving her stickers whenever she goes, which she seems to respond to. We were giving her little candies, but if she goes several times a day, that gets a little ridiculous. Plus, she doesn’t really respond to food as well as other things. She said yesterday that she should get money for going. I’ll do that! I can get her to do chores for like three cents, so she can definatley have a penny for her piggy bank for going to the potty. Whatever! I’ll bribe her. If she knew what a check was, I’d write her a big one for going. I’m at the point where I just want it done. But this is mostly because I don’t want to be taking care of an infant (and washing cloth diapers) and have to deal with Peanut’s diapers. I know that I can’t plan her life around the baby’s, but it would be nice to get her situated before he comes (only a month left, so I’m doubtful!).
So, we’re going to try the underwear and the stickers or pennies and see if that works. I may also use a potty training chart like the one above. Maybe she could put her stickers on that whenever she goes so she can have a visual reminder of her good work.

What has worked for other people? I know some people said their children took to it right away, they were potty trained in the course of a summer. Not mine! What are you doing to get your child using the potty? What has NOT worked?