Seems Mums don't play with Lego...

My DB loves Lego, would buy extortionately expensive sets for DS (who has ASD and Lego was his 'thing' for ages), just so that he could build them for with him.

The hideous family secret is that all the Lego he played with as a child was bought for me, by my Dad. It was only after he left that DB was given it. Maybe my 'D'M felt I would grow a penis, or not be able to 'catch' a nice husband if I could construct a bridge out of plastic building blocks?

This competition blurb sucks, BTW.

As do the apostrophes!

I am intrigued by the idea of being "good at lego". What constitutes being good at lego? You either like lego or you don't. As it happens, I do. I also like drinking, swearing, arguing and being competitive. Fuck you and your gender stereotypes, lego bastards

i love lego dp hates it and i was in the lego club when i was little and i won a lego design competition in the express.

am most miffed

OTOH - in advertising world 'Mums' literally do everything else: wash clothes, make packed lunches, go to Iceland, take their kids to school, buy food and toys, do the housework, take kids to the doctor, look after them when sick etc etc.

But hey Mums, you're worth it, you're irreplaceable, you're one of a kind, you're special - who else could do what you do? I mean WHO ELSE?

Who the fuck wrote that? "Dads" does not need an apostrophe. It doesn't need to be capitalised either. And "kids construction toys" should have an apostrophe. Christ. But that's by the by. The whole premise that it's only "Dad's" who play with Lego would have me spitting fury if I was a mother. What a godawful piece of shite.

I do all the Lego in our house - before I had my own DC, I spent every Christmas building my nephews' Lego sets. I grew up in a house of 3 girls that was full of Lego. This gendering of it is a recent and unwanted development.

Im shit a lego too, my husband plays with it with the boys. Its the only game he enjoys playing. He is a structural engineer and builds the most amazing things.

This is the only good thing I have seen built with the wretched Lego Friends.

FFS - DP takes one look at Lego and shrugs, he hasn't got a fecking clue what to do with it! Me on the other hand - accredited expert on playing with the stuff. DP suggested buying Lego for Xmas the other day but said he wasn't sure whether it should be a present for dd or me . He's far better at playing Sylvanians (with dd, he draws the line at playing it on his own) whereas they and the HOURS it takes to go on a simple Sylvanian camping holiday give me the rage.

How sexist! Go on then MN, give my DP a tub of Lego then, see how relaxed he is when dd is asking for 50 new combinations of minifigure and a complex half-bridge half- skyscraper structure!

Can you fire a PR firm twice? Once for crimes against grammar and once for crimes against humanity.

I've had to do Lego at work (on a training course). Would you believe it - no extra time was given for the women to complete this task, despite our apparent physical limitations!

I have a Lego VIP card, btw.

Girls (as a subset of "kids") are seemingly allowed to play with Lego, so it can't be that penises are specifically required. My theory is that it's something to do with menstruation that prevents you being able to operate Lego, although my pretty little head is too full of embroidery and kittens to work out what it might be. Perhaps I should email Lego and ask them to explain in simple words with diagrams?

This is shit. I love lego. So does DH. I'm really disappointed in mumsnet over this, even if they didn't write it, they've published it/condoned it :(

That is really shit.

Penises are not even any good at unsticking lego bricks. You need hands and fingers, and last time I look, even girls and women have them.

Too right!

DH tells everyone the Lego is really just for me. It's true.

Should I not be entering? (I really like Lego!)

Hurrah! This NN wasn't taken, I'm off to enter the competition!

Just done a quick estimate, half of the DCs lego is newish, the other half was inherited from me!

And spaceships are sooo much better than the Friends stuff, Lego have their heads up their 1950s arses with this.

I play with my children's lego AND on my own! And DD is fantastic at it, much better than DS. That's a disturbing piece of shitty writing. I hope no one enters that competition.

I love Lego and frequently buy sets for my kids that I want for myself, I am listing after the ewok treehouse set at the moment bit at £200! I won't be getting it :(