Wee Accidents
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My daughter is the same. She will wait till the last minute and have accidents. I just think it's fear of missing out. If I say 'I can see you need the toilet, let's pause this game, it'll still be here' she'll reluctantly go. Got to the point that she wouldn't drink as she knew it would result in needing to go. It's getting better, I just had to insist, talk about why it's important etc
In the same boat!!!! My girl just started year 1 and I only just took her off night time nappies and she’s still having accidents. She had one the other day at school as she was sooo invested whatever she was doing that she forgot to go toilet. I suspect she has ADHD as well as she’s constantly bouncing off the walls and she’s glued to whatever it is she’s doing as we have to scream her name just to get her attention
In terms of how to broach the the accidents. We can often tell when he needs to go but prompting him makes him really angry and less likely to go which is super frustrating. So we tend to say uh oh you've had an accident once it's happened let's clean you up and see if there's anymore then talk about how it's ok to pause a game/ whatever he was doing to go to the toilet and talk about listening to his body for when he needs to go and if he has a big drink we'll say oh you've done great at staying hydrated we need to make sure we listen to our bodies and go to the toilet when we need it now. I do feel like it is improving. Big changes happening also seems to make him have more accidents too and to be honest he's not had as many as many as I thought he would since starting school
We have a similar situation with our almost 5 year old. We just spoke to the schools we looked round and explained. They all said that it's really common and they just said send spares in with him. School have been super supportive of our son too. We're really impressed. He started on 29th August, full days from Monday this week. He's really been struggling at lunch time and the teacher/teaching assistant has sat with him everyday this week and they spoke to him yesterday morning and he said he doesn't like it because it's so loud, they tried ear defenders yesterday and he had a better time, I think they sat him further away too as he said to me he felt happy because he sat without his friends and it wasn't noisy. We are meeting with the SENCo on 20th. Sorry I've kind of gone off on a tangent about something you didn't ask about but I was so worried about him starting as he struggles lots and gets overwhelmed so thought it might help you to hear our experience so far. Hope all goes well with your daughter xx