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@Bao: No advice, just commiseration. DD2 definitely uses peeing as a stalling tactic...and at 6 months since we started potty training, she's more than capable of going by herself on a small potty in the bathroom adjoining her room. She flat out refuses to take herself. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't, so it's hard to call her bluff. I've caught DH telling her to just pee in her pull up (she wears one at night), but that infuriates me, since I'm the one who did all the potty training work and don't care to do it again. Sigh.

I try to make taking her as uninteresting as possible. I don't really talk to her, look at her, or applaud her much for going after bedtime.

We never made it a "thing". We say you don't have to ask to go potty you just go. We don't go with her. We are close if she needs us but we don't let it mean extra time with us. So it quickly passed. She has found many other ways to stall

I try to avoid this by encouraging DS to pee before bath, but I can't force him and he also uses potty as a stalling tactic. We talk about how you need to be quick at bedtime and there are no rewards for using it. But yeah it was really hard to potty train him in the first place so I don't fight him on this!

LO is 3 and does this from time to time, definitely at least once or twice but some nights it's like 5 or 6 times. It often ends up being number two so we haven't had the heart to call him out on it, I think sometimes he wants to do it but it's not coming out!
But it's annoying when he's stalling - sometimes we'll ask do you actually have to go or not really, and then he'll say not really