We have tried everything. She has made it clear that she likes her diapers and just doesn't want to use the toilet. She will wear panties until she feels the need to go and then demands that a diaper be put on her. In preschool, when wearing panties, she will just not go to the bathroom for an entire day and then upon getting home, again demand her diaper and go. When we tell her all the big kids use the toilet, including all of her friends, she replies logically, that she's a big kid and SHE doesn't use the toilet.
Toilet training is a stumbling block that sometimes tests a parent's nerves and patience.
It is one of the first experiences where the child, rather than the parent, is in ultimate control. In addition, children gain attention, praise, and rewards for each success. Moms and Dads smile with each set of dry diapers. Toilet training simply becomes picking out the pants that they want to wear and keeping them dry. Other times it isn't quite as easy.