Getting a child to go on the potty when she's aware when she's going to pee

[Ella Enchanted]

My daughter is 15 months old.  When she's running around naked and needs to me, she squats and then pees and gets excited and tries to splash it with her feet (all our floors are wood or tile), not with enough time for me to grab her before she goes.  It's very clear that she knows though.  But when I sit her on her potty, she has no interest!  She'll get up and squat beside it and pee.

How can I get her to go in the potty rather than next to it or in the living room?

I asked my mom how she had be trained so early (11 months), and she just took me to the bathroom with her and I was interested in my little potty on my own.  My little curly-top isn't.

[pbjmama]

What does she say when you tell her/show her pee goes in the potty? Does she have a potty available at all times?

[Ella Enchanted]

It's always available.  She giggles and gives me this look that says, "I'm not gonna do it your way!"  She's stubborn, like her mama. :)  It doesn't help that sitting her on her potty puts her eye-level with her favorite noms (I still breastfeed), so she tries to get at 'em.  So sometimes, often, she tries.

[sapphire_chan]

Specifically, do you have a baby bjorn little potty or the ikea potty or a potty that's about the same size/shape that will let your dd squat onto the potty?

If you do have a small potty like that, then I'd see about slipping it under her when she goes to squat. Or just every couple hours while she's doing something else.

[Ella Enchanted]

She has the Baby Bjorn Potty Chair.  With the pee guard in front, it can't really just be slipped under her.  

The bigger problem I think is that, I can put her on her potty when I can tell she's about to go and we're close enough, but she'll get off and squat right beside it and go.

[sapphire_chan]

That chair will be great when she's older, but it's actually pretty big for a 15 month old. Especially for a 15 month old who wants to squat.

[Ella Enchanted]

It was the smallest at the Babies R Us I went to. When she's on it, her knees make a perfect 90-degree bend - she's tall! What are some others that could be ordered?

[texmati]

try the little potty from teh sam company. We are in teh same spot. DS knows he has to poop, he says 'poopoo' but when we go to sit on the potty he bites, screams and kicks (normally we are taking him away from something fun). he's been put on the potty since 6-8 months, but now that he can stand and walk, has little interest in stopping what he's doing.

hopefully someone has tips! My only ideas are to bribe-- maybe he can watch tv while on potty, or play with some other 'forbidden' item.