Cheaper By The Dozen

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didn't work quite as well as some of his other objectives. For instance, he was angrier at the fact that it took him two minutes to put a bandage on his neck then the slash he gave himself while shaving with two hands!
No matter what the situation was, Mr. Gilbreth always pushed to work harder and have the family retaliate with the same amount of effort. Every so many months, he would stop into the children's school and pay a visit to the principal and teachers. He would always ask how his kids were doing in class and he always enforced it upon the teachers if his youngsters could skip a grade or two. For advancements like that, he would reward the boy or girl with a quarter or an ice cream soda. Another time would be when Martha became sick with the measles. Frank then got the idea that, since you can only have measles once, why not get the all the other children sick so they will not have to suffer later on in the life? He ordered the other 11 youths into Martha's room and ...

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