1. How would you characterize family relations in the Gilbreth household? Are they traditional or innovative? Authoritarian or democratic?
2. In what are the Gilbreths (as parents) most progressive, and in what are they most traditional? How, as a generation, do they contrast to the previous one (represented by Grandma Gilbreth) and to their own children (the Jazz Age)?
3. What limits to the possibilities of efficiency engineering are implied in the book?