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The Kaiser Famiy Foundation has just released a report on the use of kid's media to regulate family life. Here are some of the facts culled from the study which included 1,051 families with children 6 months - 6 years old:

According to the study, in a typical day more than eight in ten (83%) children under the age of six use screen media, with those children averaging about two hours a day (1:57). Media use increases with age, from 61% of babies one year or younger who watch screen media in a typical day (for an average of 1:20) to 90% of 4 to 6 year-olds (for an average of 2:03).

A third (32%) of children this age live in homes where the television is on all (13%) or most (19%) of the time and a similar proportion (30%) live in homes where the TV is on during meals all (16%) or most (14%) of the time.

More than four in ten (43%) children under 2 years old watch TV every day and nearly one in five (18%) watch videos or DVDs every day.

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