Just had to share what DD's preschool teacher told me today. DD is in a two-mornings-a-week Montessori class for toddlers who are 15-36 months old. None of the kids wear diapers at school, even if they're full-time sposied at home--they all wear cloth training pants, and the teachers are basically late-start-EC'ing the whole class. 
Anyway, DD's been EC'd since she was two weeks old, so the first couple weeks of school she was way ahead in the potty department, but lately she's been either refusing to potty all day or just peeing in her pants at some point during the morning. The teachers just ask her regularly whether she needs to go, and if she says no they respect that, and if she pees on the floor they clean it up, no worries. So cool. Anyway, today I said something to the teacher about how she's been always saying no lately in response to the question of whether she needs to go (to me as well as to them), and I'm thinking about ways to encourage her to take more initiative. And the teacher said, "Actually, I think she's saying no to going potty because she's so engaged in what she's working on at the time. Our focus is on encouraging concentration, and she's really demonstrating that right now, so we don't mind at all that she's not using the toilet."
!!! I never thought I'd hear something like that from a preschool teacher! I was so impressed. I just think it's awesome that they're interested in her whole development and don't really care about her current stage of toilet independence. And that nobody would consider putting her back in diapers because of it, which I know would be the expectation at most of the preschools in my area (because I asked when I was researching preschools). I can't believe I found a preschool that's not afraid of pee on the floor.
Anyway, DD's been EC'd since she was two weeks old, so the first couple weeks of school she was way ahead in the potty department, but lately she's been either refusing to potty all day or just peeing in her pants at some point during the morning. The teachers just ask her regularly whether she needs to go, and if she says no they respect that, and if she pees on the floor they clean it up, no worries. So cool. Anyway, today I said something to the teacher about how she's been always saying no lately in response to the question of whether she needs to go (to me as well as to them), and I'm thinking about ways to encourage her to take more initiative. And the teacher said, "Actually, I think she's saying no to going potty because she's so engaged in what she's working on at the time. Our focus is on encouraging concentration, and she's really demonstrating that right now, so we don't mind at all that she's not using the toilet."!!! I never thought I'd hear something like that from a preschool teacher! I was so impressed. I just think it's awesome that they're interested in her whole development and don't really care about her current stage of toilet independence. And that nobody would consider putting her back in diapers because of it, which I know would be the expectation at most of the preschools in my area (because I asked when I was researching preschools). I can't believe I found a preschool that's not afraid of pee on the floor.
Most of the kids are wearing waterproof training pants, so that absorbs it...but yeah, the kids help clean themselves up, I'm pretty sure.
! But usually her pants absorb it. I wonder if that'll be a problem in the spring when she starts wearing sundresses... hmm.
