DD comes home from school most days with damp pants and has the same problem at weekends - she doesn't make puddles on the floor, but she doesn't ever seem to get to the toilet in time to keep herself completely dry and clean. She is dry at night but has only been so since just before her 6th birthday - until that time she soaked through a pull-up every night and didn't wake up.
She claims not to feel that she needs to go until it's too late but I don't know whether to think it is a physiological problem or that she is too distracted to think about going. She spends a lot of time completely absorbed in whatever she is doing and makes a fuss when I remind her to try to go. I'm thinking about taking her to the doctor in the holidays but I'm wondering whether there might be other steps I could take first to help her. Incentives, reward charts etc and even sanctions haven't made any difference so far. I really don't want her to be that child in the class that smells of wee!
Does anyone have any experience of this that they could share?