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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally depends on the context.

"Could you please ask Larla to stop talking about going to visit her grandma at her beach house?  It makes Carla jealous she can't go to the beach ".

That's very different from

"Can you please ask Larla to stop talking about going to visit her grandma at her beach house?   Carla just lost her grandmother last week and it's really hard on her hearing about it right now".

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This nicely describes how how the specific ask matters.

However, I think OP's actual issue is that she resents being asked to raised an issue with her kid, no matter what it is.  In her mind, no one should request that she say something to her child.  So telling her that Larla's friend just lost her grandmother is OK; asking her to do speak with Larla about it is not.

It's pedantic and oversensitive, and a pretty ridiculous issue to have with other parents.  (And frankly, it shows that OP is perhaps *not* perfectly capable of identifying when something needs to be said to her kid.)[/quote]

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