No matter what parents ask for or do at home I pretty much do my own thing. I don't do anything here till child either asks to sit on the potty or wakes up from nap dry. If they wake up dry then I get all excited with them and say you stayed dry just like the big kids so you are big enough to sit on the potty too - all the while putting the child on the potty . They are still so groggy they are on the toilet before they realize what happened to them,lol. I just keep talking and praising it up and especially if other kids come to watch. I leave them there till they pee or put up even the slightest fuss. Then it is back to change table (just outside bathroom door) to put diaper on. I keep doing this. That is usually the first pee I am able to catch. Then we move on to taking a turn to sit on the potty middle of morning when others take a turn, etc. The intent here is not that they will pee but they will periodically sit. I use an insert on the toilet not a little potty chair.

Eventually I start to catch a few pees and they catch on. The goal is that they will learn to hold it till the next time we try.

I do not use pullups during the learning phase because I treat pullups like safety underwear - safe to be used in my house so there are no accidents on the floor. We use diapers till we are ready to actually be going pee. One of the problems is that parents swith to pullups too soon before the child has any hope of muscle control so by the time they are ready to really train they are used to peeing in the pullup. I have never had a problem training a child using pullups and refuse to do it any other way. I put a diaper back on for naptime since we are not responsible for what our body does while we are sleeping but then we wake up dry, go pee in the potty and get our pullup back on. Diaper is then put in their bin for the next day.