Actually, we have not really started yet. DD8 got trained at day care and she caught on within three days. She never had a "public accident" and I never even thought about it.

This time around I am wondering about what to do when I get groceries, go to the library, visit friends, and the likes. I guess, at day care, they kept the kids in the center until they stopped peeing everywhere? A friend of mine dropped her child off at her sister's for the weekend to potty train and when she picked the kid back up, he knew what to do. But I have also met people who "potty train" their kids over several months. That's what I mean by "initial". We had a toddler over whose potty training lasted half a year. The child kept peeing on our carpet and sofa and stinking up the house by pooping in the pants every time they came over

Kitty, I let DD2 pick out her big girl panties and she used them to dust the house. She couldn't have cared less that Tweety Bird got all nasty .

I am still trying to figure out why some children take months to master the potty thing while others do it over the course of a weekend. If it has anything to do with going back and forth from diapers to panties, I will definitely stay away from that trap...