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Study: TV common at home-based day care

Quick ReadA new study finds that children in home-based day care settings are watching twice as much television as previously thought.

At home-based day cares, preschoolers watched on average

Photo credit: Photos.com | At home-based day cares, preschoolers watched on average 2.4 hours of TV per day compared with 0.4 hours at center-based settings.

Some child care providers on Long Island were alarmed to learn of a new study finding that children in home-based day care settings are watching twice as much television as previously thought.

"That is outrageous," said Kathleen Roche, executive director of Rainbow Chimes Early Education centers in Huntington. "Television shouldn't be used at all."

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