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The team at LEGO® would like to hear about everyday occasions which you feel are worth rewarding your DCs for.

Here’s what LEGO® say "Here at LEGO®, we’re interested to see what occasions you would consider rewarding or treating your kids with LEGO®? A great school report. Holiday treats. Good behaviour on a trip to the dentist. Helping in the garden. Tidying their room. Mum's little star. There is a great LEGO® gift idea starting from £2.49 that is fun, creative and made for every occasion. With so many sets to choose from, we think LEGO® is a fantastic gift for every occasion and we’d like you to tell us about it!"

So, what everyday occasions do you think are worth rewarding? Is it consistent good behaviour? Or maybe it’s doing their violin practice? Perhaps making the school football team deserves a hearty well done?

Whatever the occasions you feel are worth rewarding, LEGO® would love to hear about them!

Please share your thoughts on this thread. Every MNer who posts a comment will be entered into a prize draw, where one MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!
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I recently had a bad back, and DD (aged 8) was such a star in cleaning, putting out laundry and cooking - definitely worth a reward!

Rewards for doing well at school, such as in his music exam, getting a certificate in class. Can be an outing such as the cinema, their choice of dinner out.
Lego is usually given at Xmas and birthdays with the odd figure/piece given here and there. Really enjoying reading the Lego hardback book at the moment, about the different figures you can make!

I think a reward is best given for something truly kind, generous or genuinely lovely that my child does without any prompting what so ever.

I have four children who all love lego. I tend to reward for nice behaviour, a teaching saying something nice, a solo they've sing or played, a school or music exam. Depending on the thing depend on how much I soend £2-5 for general niceness (they generally don't misbehave I think this is because they are rewarded for good behaviour), £10 gift and a date night with mummy or daddy to their favourite restaurant. We normally try and do it with each child I er a 6-8 week period.

Great for rewards on long trips! Bigger Lego sets are for special occasions but we also took some in a bag we packed specially for our boy when camping! Good toys to play with for hours in the middle of no where!

My oldest little one earns marbles for certain behaviours (helping me clean, watering the garden, tidying all his toys in the evening, being very kind to his little brother or learning a new skill). If he doesn't tidy his toys away, the toy alligator eats them all in the night and he has to buy them back with marbles. Once he gets to 10 marbles he can have a £2 treat or he can get to 15 marbles and have a £3 treat. At the moment that's either a kids magazine or ticket to the toddler cinema showing (1.50 ea) - he always saves his marbles til he has 15 now. He is a big lego fan so he would adore saving his marbles for a small bit of lego! Jen (and Winston, age 4).

Doing something the first time of asking, without a fuss!

I think the only time I've offered a physical reward in advance and then given it when something was achieved was when they swam a mile. One chose a radio alarm, the other a large Lego set!

My children get rewards for good kind behaviour. If there's something they don't particularly enjoy (but we feel would benefit them) they might get a reward. One of my children is quite lazy and would prefer to stay indoors playing on screens. He gets a magazine each Friday on the condition he goes to football club and plays at the park after school. We also give rewards instead of sweets.

I don't tend to reward with lego although the children would love it if I did. They save up pocket money for minifigures and get bigger kits for birthday/ Christmas a lot. I use minifigures in party bags or to top up presents for family and friends too. At the moment we aren't doing any consistent reward schemes, though in the past they have been for getting dressed quickly, or for being quiet in the mornings and not waking daddy up (he works shifts).

potty training victories (we're in the early stages)

DS gets lego as a reward spontaneously, when he has done something above and beyond. The last time he got verbal praise and hugs for practicing his lines for the school play diligently and being word perfect and audible in the performance. He got the lego for stepping in and delivering the lines of another child who was off school ill on the day of the performance.

I actually don't believe that everyday things should be rewarded with a Lego gift.
Sorry! Old miser here.

my son is 3 years and 3 and a half months old. he gets rewarded for remembering to say, please, thank you and sorry. also for tidying his toys up and eating all his dinner up. he is a good boy and I want him to grow up a polite young man

A week of smooth mornings might result in a small set or a mini-figure on Friday. Dry days in a row result in different sized sets (not succeeding ie 2 small sets earned since February) If we're away for the weekend there might be a Saturday evening/Sunday morning lego surprise if he's been good. We love lego!

I give my children rewards for good school reports and for regularly helping out and keeping their bedroom tidy.
If they've been particularly kind, I will definitely praise and reward that.

My 2.5 yo has just discovered Lego really. She still used a dummy so I am planning on a wee Lego set bein her gift from the dummy fairy.

She is still wee so I generally grab wee things I see that I know she will like. I do link it to something though to try to avoid her just getting.

So for example, she might get something on a Saturday if she has sat nicely through lunch out and said please and thank you without being asked

My DDgets rewarded for sharing and playing with other children, because it's so hard for her. And big rewards when she endures visitors - that's even harder (being assessed for ASD)

She's getting sweets and a sticker book whilst visitors come today. And probably a new toy tomorrow if she behaves too!

My DC usually get a special treat for doing something well like passing a music grading or doing well at sport. We usually go to their favourite buffet restaurant as a family if we have something to celebrate.

On a Friday if we have made it through the week fairly smoothly I will buy them a magazine.

My 7 year old has been reminding me for the past 6 months that I promised him a Lego creator
set if he tries hard at school this year. He tries hard already but sometimes needs a push to remind him not to be lazy because he would do the bare minimum if he cod. Seems to work, he always perks up when I tell him I remember and gets on with his homework. Sometimes I will get him a minifigure for doing something especially good but I think he's figured out that I'm building my own collection of mini
figures and am more interested than him

I reward my four year old for trying hard. She has recently started making her bed in the morning because i gave her a big cuddle and cheered when she did it the first time. It's not perfect, she's 4 after all, but she tries hard and that's the important thing.

It's the same when she tries something difficult at her gymnastics class. It doesn't matter if she can't walk all the way across the low beam on her own, she tries so hard and gets up if she falls and tries again.

We praise positive behaviour as much as possible but sometimes I know we get so caught up with the 'telling off' we forget about all the lovely stuff. We tend to give a 'treat' like a comic or little toy or maybe sweets/ice cream for particularly lovely behaviour.

Our DCs love Lego to bits (we were recently badgered at the crack of dawn every day to get the newspaper that had the Lego giveaway!), so it's safe to say the colourful bricks always go down well as a reward . In our house this is almost always connected to academic achievement - normally good spelling/Maths test results.
Pleased to report that it does the trick!

Mine get rewarded for trying their best/putting in special effort to do something I know they find difficult.
Also good school reports, being consistently helpful at home, being especially kind to other children, when someone tells me that they've been especially helpful eg at Brownies or music club.

My DS is just a lovely little chap. He has his moments like all kids but on the whole he is a delight to spend time with. His teachers have nothing but praise for him as do most people who know him. He is well mannered, charming and hard working. I sometimes wonder how on earth I managed to raise such a well rounded little chap! We love to surprise him with little treats and rewards. He loves Lego and there is so much choice. He's into mixels at the minute, a nice little reward for good behaviour.

As someone who rarely buys toys for my dc other than for birthdays, Christmas and Easter. I would buy a toy for good behaviour at home and maybe good behaviour at school ie in school clubs or certificate of the week etc.