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Re: Food at home. I do know breakfast for him (before he gets to me) consists of whatever travels well in the car....mornings are early for them. He gets breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks with me. This child will eat anything! My groups last snack (I make sure and get a protein in) is at 3pm. All leave b/w 4p and 4:15. Mom says that while she is prepping supper he literally pulls bowls, pots of food down off the counter to eat. Once she had put everyone's plates (family of 4) on the table to cool and ran to pee (the child had banished to the living room watching TV). By the time she had returned he had hoovered down EVERYONE'S piping hot dinner!
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I should also add that he is very tiny...I have no idea where he puts it!
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http://pediatricservices.com/parents/pc-22.htm
I don't allow kids to sit that way. I ask them to "fix their legs". I know that the schools in my area are the same. It seems like overthinking it, but after doing a bit of research, it's not a good position for the entire lower half of the body to be in for any length of time. Studies have also shown that kids who W-sit have a tendency not to use a dominant hand, or learn to pass things from one hand to another (called crossing the midline) which is actually a really important part of brain development.
That being said; you can only do what you can do. I had a little girl last year who was AWFUL for sitting that way. She was terribly pigeon-toed and very clumsy. Watching her run made my stomach turn, because inevitably, she was going to face plant!! If she sat down that way, I asked her to "fix her legs" into "criss cross applesauce" or "legs in a line". She would do it right away. But even though I sent home info on it, and mom always talked about how she wished Little One wasn't so pigeon toed, I know that they never did the same. Every Monday morning, or if she was away for a while, she slipped right back into the habit.
