![]() ![]() Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure. 'Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly. Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. The Gilbreth parents were both well-known engineers and "efficiency experts" who tried, with mixed success, to apply their theories and ideas to raising a large family of twelve (YES) children.* It's a funny, fond, and heartwarming account of their growing up years, as told by two of the children. This is a semi-factual account of the Gilbreth family, growing up in the early 1900s. I just reread it for the first time in years, and though much of it was still amusing, the book as a whole hasn’t aged as well as I’d hoped. I still have the ancient paperback copy of this book and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes, on my basement bookshelves. I adored Cheaper by the Dozen when I was a young teen, and I read it more times than I can count. 3.75 stars, partly for the nostalgia factor. ![]()
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