Tips and expert advice

Night feeds can feel lonely. When the rest of the world is asleep, and you’re awake with your baby, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one. But you’re not. Every night, thousands of parents are up at the same time, rocking, feeding, and comforting their little ones.

If you’ve ever found yourself rocking your baby in the quiet hours of the night, scrolling your phone at 3AM, and wondering if you’re the only one awake – you’re not. There’s an unspoken community of parents and carers who share this same experience, and we like to think of it as the secret community of night feeds.

Here's some top tips to encourage your child to keep reading over the summer and avoid any decline in those hard-won new skills.

Find out how to talk to young children about love, and why it’s so important. Usborne author, Katie Daynes, shares the main lessons she learned from writing Very First Questions and Answers: What is love?

Sofia Züger loves talking to children and families about the importance of soil and why we should save it from going extinct.

To support Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we hear from an Usborne editor about her experiences sharing Usborne’s ‘Lift-the-Flap Very First Questions and Answers’ books with her son, who has recently been diagnosed with autism.