Cheaper by the Dozen“ Cheaper by the Dozen”, based on a real-life story of the Gilbreth family, is a fantastic book. This hilarious comedy about a family with a dozen kids kept me grounded until the end! This family, run like a well-oiled machine, has taken me on Sunday walks across the country, family court battles, summers at the beach, my father's theories on motion study, and the economical removal of the entire family's tonsils . I loved it! I find it really surprising. Not only did the family boast twelve children, but they all learned to speak foreign languages, type, do mental arithmetic, and even Morse code, all because their father devised dozens of ingenious ways to motivate them, even though they often reluctantly. on their part. I had many moments where I laughed out loud, and at times, I wish I was part of this large, loving family, or maybe raising one of my own the same way… imagine that! It could probably never happen. I can't imagine living with twelve brothers and sisters and getting along! Actually, I wouldn't call it getting along; I'd call it survival, by God! The Gilbreth family of twelve red-haired, freckle-faced children, parents of efficiency experts and pioneers in the field of motion study, Lillian and Frank, were a little eccentric and extremely funny. I still remember one of the jokes a child blurted out at the dinner table: "Please, we are NOT in the mood for an organ concert." This was the standard reprimand for burping in the family and was never intended for public airing. I also liked the part where one of the children says to a dinner guest: “Is this of general interest?” Although these twelve children were very disciplined by their father (the mother, for the most part, simply agreed with the father) in a couple of cases they managed to catch the father off guard, such as when the children continually asked him "Father, can you kind of touch?” “No,” he would reply, “but I can teach it!” Nothing was considered more of a sin than wasting precious time, which is why the father, Frank, timed himself by trying to go as fast as possible with almost everything. Every movement in everyday life must be functional. He timed the buttoning of his shirt to see which direction was fastest, top down or bottom up. He timed the shave to see which method took the longest, using brushes to apply shaving cream, or just one..