George, are you looking forward to the playgroup?

乔治，你是不是很期待去呢？

Madame Gazelle looks after the children at the playgroup.

羚羊夫人在照看里的小朋友。

There are about 18 million kids under the age of 5, and they go to day care and nursery school and pre-K and playgroups.

美国5岁以下约为1800万，他们会去托所、、学前班和游戏组。

Chief executive Caroline Slocock cited the dilemma of a working mother who had to collect a toddler from playgroup but was faced with an office culture that valued late working.

首席执行官罗琳·斯劳考克举出了一个就业母亲所处的尴尬境地：下班时间一到，她得去领小孩子，但她面对的办公室文化却看重晚下班工作习惯。

While hunter-gatherer children learnt from observation and imitation in mixed-age playgroups, researchers said that western " instructive teaching" , where pupils are asked to sit still, may contribute to conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

研究人员表示，狩猎采集社会的孩子们在混龄游戏小组中通过观察和模仿来学习，而西方的 “指导性教学”，即要求学生坐着不动，可能会导致注意力缺陷多动障碍等状况。