re-reading Dina...

I read Dina recently and noticed a sentence that i found a little suprising... having discussed it with my colleagues they agreed that they had never heard of it and hadn't noticed it before in Dina. I'd be interested to know if any conductors had any thoughts on the following....

(sorry i forgot to note the page number for this quote but wrote the quote down - if anyone finds it then please comment on the post to let people know)

'with a child who has a tendency to stand on his toes, positions in
which the foot is not at a right angle to the leg should be avoided. This
applies to crawling as well as, for example, cross leg sitting'

I can see the logic of this but as a student conductor was never told this and have seen many children who tend to stand on their toes use crossed-leg sitting and crawling. And have used these positions with such children many times - i feel appropriately.


so.... any thoughts?