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When DD started at daycare 2 months shy of being 3, she came home with dirty underwear daily. I complained to the teachers and it did nothing. I then spoke with the director and insisted she get help. I was irate by that point: there are plenty of 3 year olds who aren’t potty trained at all, so you certainly can’t expect one who is to wipe herself. We didn’t have problems after that.

FWIW the teachers said they weren’t wiping her because they didn’t know she was pooping. Apparently other kids don’t poop at school. But the director told them they had to ask if she was pooping/needed help or something. DD2 is at the same school and either she just wipes better or they help her (she’s 28 months).

At orientation for my 3.5 year old dd I said something about needing help wiping, and the teacher quickly responded that they don’t do that. NO other parents said anything, and I was pretty embarrassed. I know my kid isn’t the only one that has issues and needs help, I couldn’t believe everyone else was silent. The next day at meet the teacher, I had three parents say something to me about how they don’t know how their kid will do because they can’t do it at all on their own. anyway, no point here really except to say you’re not alone in this issue.

@Littlebit7: how old is she? I taught DD to wipe around 3.5 by telling her to wipe downwards like a choo choo train lol. But wiping her butt is definitely much harder. She didn't poop at school for 99% of the time so that helped

@Littlebit7: another thing is that flushable wiped like kandoo are so much easier for them to use than regular toilet paper. So see if that's an option for you to bring in flushable wipes or atleast she can practice with them at home

Yikes, this is still a problem for my five year old! We've been trying to get him to wipe himself for a year now, but he still needs QC way too often. Luckily he usually doesn't go in school, but when he does I often find out about it at home in the grossest way possible

And then there's the three year old, who waits for me to get home before she does her business.

I wipe way too many butts. I'm all pooped out.

@Littlebit7: when my oldest started Pre-k3, I was worried about that too, but she ended up always pooping on the afternoon after school. We literally never once have had streaky underwear in 2 years of pre-k, and. Now she's really good at wiping herself.

My second kiddo is starting pre-k 3 this year and I'm minimally worried just because she's been an evening pooper for some time, so I'm hoping that continues. We'll see!