Do you 'train' your kids to be dry at night...instinct says no but DH says yes...thoughts?

[robin3]

DH suddenly got it in to his head that DS1 (nearly 4) should be trained to be dry at night. Bizarrely it's the only milestone he's ever expressed an opinion about but maybe that's because he thinks I've forgotten one of my Mummy duties!!

Most mornings DS1 wakes up with a wet nappy and we've just moved him to dry night pants. I get DH's point of view on the environmental impact of using disposables but my question is am I waiting for DS1 to consistently wake up dry or should I be training this in some way?

DS just suddenly said he didn't want to wear a nappy at night. He wasn't dry at night - had a wet nappy, but we took the risk and he didn't wet the bed - only a couple of times, anyway, and then just stopped.

I think the nappy gave the signal that wetting was automatic, and with no nappy the habit was changed.