Cheaper by the Dozen.CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (April 4 1908 - November 4 2006) was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. . 1948/1994. Read by Dana Ivey. 5 cds. 6 hrs. Listening Library. 0-307-24636-1. $35.00. Vinyl; content, author, reader notes. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. When folks in Montclair, New Jersey met the extraordinary Gilbreth family, adventures quickly multiplied. Mr. Gilbreth became a noted efficiency expert, and Mrs. Gilbreth was an often-homebound psychologist. The combination helped them enjoy their six girls and six boys and steer them in innovative and loving directions. Ivey reads delightedly as she handles male and female voices and emotions, and there is appropriate music for shifting scenes. Some of the many memorable episodes are the assembly-line removing of tonsils tonsils, name commonly referring to the palatine tonsils, two ovoid masses of lymphoid tissue situated on either side of the throat at the back of the tongue. , the creative treeing of a neighborhood boy who got too curious, and the family determination to carry on after the death of Frank, Sr. This story, first published in 1948, is less than politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but , as there is some ignorance about a few ethnicities, birth control and spanking spanking Pediatrics Corporal punishment, usually of children, in which the buttocks, are pummeled, swatted, or otherwise struck. See Corporal punishment Sexology Slapping, usually of the buttocks as a part of sexuoerotic activity. Cf Sadomasochism. . However, most will find this audio highly entertaining and even instructive. Maureen Griffin, Researcher, Winthrop, MA |
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