"Want a wee wee , Mummy" and other lies.

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DS is still in nappies but he loves sitting on the toilet. He drags me upstairs regularly telling me he wants a wee, we go through rigmarole of trousers and nappy off etc and he sits there smiling, wipes his nose and hair (??!!) with a tissue and proclaims "all done" and climbs down.
He has not 'done' diddlysquat.

I am playing along on the basis that it is good that he wants to etc...

Is the answer to just put him in pants and go for it?

he thinks sitting on the toilet is doing a wee. He's not really lying, just misinformed.

Does he show any sign of being able to control his bladder, or knowing when he is about to wee?

I blame nursery! He sees all the slightly older children trotting off to "do a wee wee"...

He has very occassionally grabbed his crotch and said wee wee.

get a potty, put it in the middle of the floor in the living room, and sit him of it. Tell him wee wee goes in the potty.

When (not if, when) he inevitably wees on the floor, sit him straight on the potty, "wee wees go in the potty darling!"

When he finally squeezes a trickle into the potty, reward with a 'hard reinforcer' such as chocolate button.

That's the only way I managed to train my (very late) ds1