Though the store wasn't a success, she later credited it with helping her to understand children and what made a good children's book.

A big part of the jobs is just understanding children.

I understand children because about two and a half feet of me is still eight years old.

It is a really neat way to understand children.

They understand children and they have the children's best interests at heart.

And the queen apparently understood scholars as well as children.

She gave the Professor a good mark for that; he must understand children.

The children's libraries are run by women, deemed more likely to understand children.

She said I didn't understand children much and told me why.

Valentine, who clearly didn't understand children, gave them another small, false smile.