New research published in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics found that kids in child care settings could be watching as much as 2.4 hours of television on an average day.
A study from the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development examined 168 child care programs and found that 70 percent of home-based and 36 percent of center-based programs showed television to preschool kids.
"Most parents don't know what happens at their children's preschool," said author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, who directs the Center for Child Health.
Researchers surveyed licensed home-based and center-based day cares in multiple states that took care of children under the age of 5. It was reported reported that on an average day, home-based programs showed about 1.6 hours to toddlers, compared with 0.1 hours for center-based programs, and 2.4 hours to preschool children compared with 0.4 hours.
Previous estimates that children spend about three hours a day watching television are incorrect, because those numbers relied on parents to calculate the number. In addition to this recent study that indicated that some day care centers show about 2.4 hours of screen time, some American preschool children could be watching as much as five hours a day.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/28/daycare.children.tv/index.html
No comments:
Post a Comment