My DS toilet trained a little before 2. I started him early because he has kidney problems and I really wanted to be able to monitor his urinating. He learnt sitting down and I taught him to hold his 'tonky' down so that the wee went into the toilet and not all over the seat/floor/wall! I have not used a potty because it kinda doesn't make sense to me, you teach your kid to toilet somewhere and then you have to teach them to go somewhere else! Only my opinion though. I also didn't really want to deal with the stuff in the potty when I could just get them to go on the toilet then flush it away! We had a step and a cushie tushie which we left on the toilet so it was always ready for the kids.

It took DS a couple of weeks until he was reliably TT, and he asked to go nappy-less at night also. I think my kids have both been pretty easy to TT!! Just luck I think, rather than any particular talent on my part.

DS didn't start standing up to wee until he was about 3. We have an 'open door' policy and he saw his dad standing up and wanted to do the same. Took him a couple of weeks to get used to driving his tonky and my floors saw a fair bit of pine o clean!!

My advice is that once you make the decision to TT, stick with it. No more nappies during the day (apart from naps), regardless of what you are doing or where you are going. Maybe plan it for when you can have a quiet couple of weeks with lots of time at home? We also used bribery, one smartie for a wee, two for a poo. Nothing for a try because we discovered the kids would go sit every 5 minutes and ask for a smartie!! Pull ups didn't work for us, I think they must feel just like a nappy and we had zero success with them.

Good luck! Life is so much easier when TT is done!