re: Kids' grandparents asking for medical consent for a few days of babysitting... thoughts?

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I am 100% positive it's not sketchy, and I agree it's based off something they heard or saw. The kids ride the bus. Their doctor is literally our friend. We know all the neighbors.

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Test them and give the consent to your friend the doctor, I mean for “any other time you aren’t there” and “they are a doctor after all”

See how it goes? Lol

ETA: fwiw I’ve never heard of this, my fil is a doctor and I could absolutely see him doing this. He is also, my wife’s dad and like the above said…

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HIPPA

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It's HIPAA.

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An attorney friend of hers recommended in case they get injured and unable to speak in a hospital

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WTF? That sounds like emergency medical treatment, nobody is calling anyone if your kid is choking on his own vomit, they're fixing the problem. Your kid may have signed permission for you to be given details from the student health center. Since he's 18, if the kid sought medical treatment, it's not really your business, and no one other than your kid would be asking for your permission anyway.

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medical consent for

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What is this?

We usually leave a copy of our insurance card in case of emergencies, but this seems different.

Here is something that happened when I was a kid:
My parents were in their mid-late 20s in the 1960s. My Dad was a funny guy and teenagers would come over to our house a lot on weekend nights to talk to him and hangout. My Dad rarely ever even drank a beer, so parents generally approved of him
We had a nice flat backyard with good lighting and they would do all sorts of stuff, like pitching horseshoes, playing badminton or having footraces.
I was just a kid, but I was getting hugged and kissed by a lot of teenage hippy girls and watching everybody having fun. Sitting on our picnic table, thoughtfully provided by Vanvalkenburgh's Lumber Company

My Dad was a pretty dang fast runner, he was the hands down backyard champion, except for this one guy, that was probably my Dad's favorite. They never raced each other...until one night all of the losers pushed for a showdown. It had to happen.

So there they were at the starting line, my Dad trying his best to look like Bobby Darrin and this full blood Cherokee hippy kid with Urkle glasses laughing and talking crap to each other. My dad was probably in wingtips and the kid is in moccasins

Well somebody says "Go!" and they take off.
My Dad has a step on him right from the Jump and is leaving him in the dirt.

Well after a few steps the kid falls down and makes a loud groan and starts grabbing his foot.
He's sliced his foot on something and it's bad.
So they load him up in the station wagon and My Mom and Dad rush him to Decatur hospital, while some of the teenagers babysit us.

On this particular night, the kid's parents were out at some kind of fox hunting function and couldn't be reached.
The hospital refused to touch the kid until they got consent. He bled a lot.
Probably the maddest I ever saw my Dad after that.

How old are the kids?

What are the details of this form?

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I’ve never heard of this, and I’m a woman.

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You are the Lia Thomas of this board.

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You need to be specific here

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They aren't providing a form. They are asking me to provide a form. It's a basic form you can download from the pediatrician's office. It's just fricking odd and annoying that it requires a notary. That's all.

I would never leave my child for multiple days without leaving a consent for emergency medical treatment and with people I trusted to give that consent. It’s to protect your child in the event something catastrophic happens while you’re gone. It can also be written very narrowly and a specific date ending.

We always allow our son to take a friend on vacation with us overseas every summer. That child’s parents always sign something authorizing us to seek medical attention in the event of emergencies. We are also given limited legal rights to act as their guardian in certain decisions while overseas and while their parents aren’t available to be present.

Good.