Here is Caleb and his sticker sheet.  When he asks to go potty, or we tell him to go potty, and he goes and is dry he gets a sticker!
    After experiencing a lot of tears and accidents with potty training our first son about 3-4 years ago, I always said that I would NEVER go through that again.  My biggest headache/stress in parenting (right now) is the fear of going through potty training again.  Needless to say, I always said I would not potty train Caleb (our second son) until I knew he was absolutely ready.  I always said I wouldn't do it until he could tell me, "mommy, I need to go to the potty and I don't want to wear diapers anymore, etc."
    Well, that's exactly what happened on March 29th.  Caleb was in the bathtub and said he needed to go pee-pee.  I wasn't too sure, but he has never asked me while in the tub (he has told me this when a cousin or his brother needed to go--kind of a mimicking thing).  This time it was different, and it was real.  So I got him out of the tub, let him stand on a stool and he did in fact pee-pee in the toilet.  I asked him if he'd like to try big boy training pants today and he said yes.  I haven't put a diaper on him since (well, at night I have, but that has turned out to be unnecessary, too!).
    He started potty training on that Wednesday, he had a number of accidents that day.  On Thursday he had one accident.  Now, one-and-a-half weeks later, he is potty trained, with having only a few accidents in that amount of time (the three times I can think of he was side-tracked with either a video or playing outside).  Now, having a BM in the toilet is another matter, but staying dry and telling us when he needs to "go" has been a goal reached.  I am thrilled!
    I can say that this experience has been night and day compared to Joshua.  I KNOW that children are different, and Caleb has always been a bit more mature for his age.  But I am convinced that waiting until HE was ready and asking for it was the key to this success.  And I'm going to do the same thing with Daniel, and Miriam.  I'm going to wait and wait and wait until I see something similar.  I'm not going to push them or tell them we're going to potty train.  I'm not going to say, "today we're going to try to wear big boy pants."  I'm going to let them tell me.  No more headaches, no more tears, no more yelling or frustration.  It was a breeze and I am so thankful!
    Caleb filled in three sticker charts like the one above.  The first one awarded him a special cookie that daddy has for his lunches.  The second chart awarded him a treat from Dairy Queen.  And the last chart awarded him a new package of Spiderman underwear.  He is VERY proud of those Spiderman underwear.  He's asked for another chart, but he has this down, and charts aren't necessary anymore.  I think he's disappointed about that.  As long as he doesn't figure out that by having accidents I might have to go back to the chart!!