I get two M&M's!!!

Potty training is the pits. I'd personally like to not participate at all and just let her train herself. You see, I have this theory: If I don't pressure her, she'll get it in her own time. But this is kind of a catch 22. Nealie, who will be three at the end of June, is still perfectly content sitting in a dirty diaper. So what can I do? Really?
I'll tell you what I can do: BRIBERY. Yup, that's right. So, our deal is that she can have one M&M for trying and two M&M's for actually going potty. Amazingly, this slowly but surely caught on and now Nealie is a pro at going pee in the potty -- great start, fer sure.

So here's the kicker: I decided that she ONLY gets M&M's if she goes potty. So guess what? She stopped. Just like that. So I started back up the M&M's and she goes potty almost every time. Then I decided that she was doing so well, I'd let her cruise around in underwear. Get this: my kid can stay in the same diaper ALL day (minus naps and nighttime) and keep it dry, but she will go in her underwear and only run to the potty AFTER she's already gone. Oh, and she's no fool. "I get two M&M's?" Yeah, I don't think so.

I think that they should start a school where you send your kid and SOMEONE ELSE pottytrains them. Why not? You can send a dog away to these programs and they come back completely trained. Someone's really missing out on making millions.

For the meantime, we're gonna switch to pull ups (even though they're more expensive) and go from there. She's got lots of time, but I do fear that I am just turning my daughter into a chocolate addict rather than actually scaffolding her potty training.

Oh, and once they are potty trained, how do you wean them off the chocolate?