Since she's only 6, the support, opporunity and encouragement she gets from the adults around her is just as important as the scope she uses.
I wouldn't *immediately* recommend a Tak.
But you want to give her some quality optics to look through otherwise, as you have mentioned, she'll soon grow tired of the crummy views. A small collection of quality oculars would enhance the experience.
I'm not certain about a GOTO, but then again, she's 6, soon to be 7, 8, 9, and at the upper end of childhood the GOTO would be a bonus.
If it were my child I'd be tempted to go for a small aperture tabletop GOTO AltAz reflector with a few plossls and see how things go from there. A setup like that would have the capacity to grow as the child develops.
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