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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would respect her decision but also try to make it clear this is a legitimate reason for an extension since she visited you in the hospital every day and it cut into practice time. Explain that if your parent were in the hospital, you would also take leave from work and request extensions, and other adults would be understanding. She can decide she doesn't want or need to ask, but this isn't special treatment because it didn't personally happen to her so I would try to correct that way of thinking. It's called a family emergency.[/quote]

Not OP, but careful how you phrase that to your kid and it definitely depends on the job.  I have the high schooler and we recently had the death in the family.  It was one of my ILs.  While DH and I could take a little leave, no, we couldn’t just get extensions at work.  We still have deadlines to meet.  And that’s life in certain fields.  We have people who help us to get by the day to day for the immediate out but ultimately it’s on us.

We think of this as the opposite, many times there are no extensions in the real world.

Now obviously, sometimes you need to drop the ball.  This happens when there is a death or a major medical emergency.  You can only do what you can do.  [/quote]

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