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hi my name is athena and i have a ten month old son and have looked after my step daughter since she was a baby i started potty traing her around the same age as your little one and well i have got to say it went really well.i went out and brought a potty and a kids book how to use my otty and i showed her the pictures and said we you need to go for wee or poo poos then you sit on potty and eventually over time she did

Hiya. I have a 4 year old son and a 3 month old girl. If I was you, I would leave it a while as you are weaning off the dummy. Too many changes at once are too much. My son was two and a half when I potty trained him - the longer you leave it the easier it is as they have a better understanding of what's going on. It took my son two weeks.
What to do, is find a week when you have nothing else really going on and don't have to go anywhere much. When in the house, put pants on him. You may be changing every ten minutes on the first day so make sure you have loads of pants!
When he wets himself, take off his pants and sit him on the potty. Don't be annoyed with him but show distance so he knows it is not right to pee himself and won't do it to get attention. After a while he will get the hang of it. When going out, I put my son in pullups, making sure he peed before we went out, until they were constantly dry when we got home, then bit the bullet and put him in pants. Nighttime dryness takes a bit longer, but again just do the same as with going out.
Not everyone may agree with how I did it, but it worked for me. Good luck.
(Incidentally, my son learned to poo in potty quicker than peeing, because it feels nastier in pants than pee does)