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6 year old and poop!

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I read all the threads about four year olds that still poop in their pants and other people's experiences with their kids spontaneously getting it (or getting over it) one day. I was patient. I was hopeful.

Well now she's six! What's going on? What can I do? How did this happen to me?
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I wanted to add that I didn't post this in the wrong forum. I consider this fully a gentle discipline question by this age!
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Could you write a little more about the circumstances and why you consider this a GD question? (Not that I'll have any advice, but it may help others to understand the issue more fully.)
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Seems that at least once a day I smell poop, check her panties and send her to the bathroom to take care of it. When asked she says she didn't notice or was too busy to go. She doesn't go before it's too late but she also doesn't take herself afterward until I notice.

It's gentle discipline because I need to guide her to do her pooping in the toilet, and my efforts for the past six years have failed

We did EC, so I really enjoyed pottying with her as a baby, but then she didn't ever take over, and I definitely went through some rough patches of being so mad at her, which is possibly why it's still an issue today. I don't do that anymore, but some days I take it in stride ("Better go take care of that.") and some days it really pisses me off and I end up making snide comments because I'm trying not to act mad but I am. I don't usually try to act insincerely with my actions but when I get mad about this, I really get mad and I don't want to do that and it doesn't help. Snide seems marginally better

I think I'm going to go tell her how happy it would make me if she'd start getting it in the toilet and tell her she could make that change as a gift to me. She's a sweetie--who knows?
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