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No practical pointers here, just a few thoughts to keep you sane.  I'm too cranky to offer helpfully optimistic tips today.

1.) When people tell you they had an easy time potty training their now-grown kids, don't believe it.  It's not true.  It's just that they have blocked the pain.

2.) Potty training is not a straight line.  A few steps forward, more steps back, a few steps to the side ...

3.)  There will be accidents.  Find a good fabric and carpet cleaner.  Nuff said.

4.)  You can't legislate or command other people's bodily functions, so back off if it's not working.  A young pediatrician we see in the doctor's office sometimes told me that in a gamble with a toddler regarding bodily functions, you (the parent) are the gambler, and the kid is the house. The house, of course, always wins.

That's it.  Back to the training grounds, oh, weary warriors.