3yo dirty protests

[SouperNoodle]

The past couple of weeks, 3yo dd has been emotional and when she gets angry, she has dirty protests (wee only). She's been potty trained for about 6 months without any incidents until now.
I suspect the change of behaviour has been due to moving up to preschool but I'm not sure how to deal with the protests.
So far, I've just picked her up, put her straight on the loo and calmly said "wee wees go in the toilet, not on the floor" and then clean her up and clean up the floor without any fuss.

Is there anything else I should be doing? It's starting to drive me a bit loopy!

Probably not a dirty protest, but dc losing control when having a tantrum. It's a phase. Stay calm, mop up afterwards, don't make a big deal of it. Poor little thing - one of my dc would wet themselves in tantrums every now and then: your dd will grow out of it.

My toddler does the same, she knows exactly what she’s doing you can see it in her face! My suggestion would be to go back to potty training something like a reward chart, she probably knows what she’s doing just working through the emotions in a tantrum.

If you're absolutely sure she's doing it on purpose and not just losing control, I'd make the "dirty protest" very boring and annoying for her. So, she wets herself, then she has to put her wet clothes in the washer, clean the floor, and then go and get in the shower. Not in a mean way, not as a punishment, but as the natural consequence of her actions. Be very breezy about it, but make it all very, very dull. She'll soon get the message.

Thanks guys. I'll give these a go.
She's definitely aware that she's doing it and has openly said that she does it on purpose.

When my DD started nursery she was nearly 4 and she suddenly started having accidents. She had been potty trained since 2 years 3 months! I think it was tiredness / anxiety rather than naughtiness so I didn't make a big deal of it. It lasted for a couple of weeks and then all back to normal.

I'll never get over the shame of my 2 year old fighting with a little boy at nursery, doing a poo and throwing it at said boy. That was an awkward phone call to take in work

Your son is my hero.

Is it the pain from needing a wee which is tipping her over the edge into a tantrum? Both my girls (3 and now 6) can be in a proper grump and times and if I send them to the toilet the return a changed child.