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What were your favourite childhood treats and rewards? Tell LEGO® and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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AngelieMumsnet · 24/07/2015 12:16

We’ve been asked by the team at LEGO® to find out about our Mumsnetters’ favourite treats and rewards from their childhood.

What sort of treats and rewards did you get during your childhood? Maybe you were given a chocolate bar for good school work? Or perhaps you received small toys as a reward for good behaviour? If you were a child today, what would be your ideal treat or reward? Perhaps it didn’t even exist when you were a child?

Either way, whatever childhood treats and rewards you loved before or would love now, LEGO® would like to hear about them!

Please share your thoughts on this thread and be in with the chance to win a £300 Love2Shop Voucher. Every MNer who posts a comment will be entered into the prize draw where one MNer will win the £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!
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JaniceJoplin · 29/07/2015 13:51

When my mum wanted a 'break' on a Sunday morning, my treat would be to be taken to the park by my dad. We used to bring a blanket and have a nice picnic which largely consisted of Jelly Tots!

My aunt used to save up all her 20p pieces to give me and my brother. She had no children of her own. I also used to be amazed that every time she went to a charity fair she managed to win me a teddy. I did not realise that it was largely because she bought so many tickets.

colouringinagain · 29/07/2015 17:10

I think my main reward was praise! But we did also enjoy "Sunday afternoon sweets" quarter of Cola cubes, pineapple chunks or sherbet lemons etc...

Treats for my kids - a visit to a certain ice cream parlour is vv popular, also a magazine goes down v well!

hotchocforme · 29/07/2015 17:15

I didn't really get treats from my parents. Sometimes we were allowed sweets.
My grandparents gave us sweets, biscuits and ice-cream and let us rent videos.

These days I would like craft materials as a treat, or a nice meal out with my family. Or a book.

VelmaD · 29/07/2015 22:50

does a reward of a knickerbocker glory for swallowing rancid worming medicine milkshakes count!?!?!

kungfupidge · 30/07/2015 07:56

my favorite treat was a barbie doll but i would have had to work really hard at doing chores etc to get one ! sweet wise my favorites were blackjacks or them little fol cups with the chocolate that was like the bottom of a cornetto lol x

pixiedusk · 30/07/2015 11:24

What sort of treats and rewards did you get during your childhood? Maybe you were given a chocolate bar for good school work? Or perhaps you received small toys as a reward for good behaviour?
Paper! I love drawing before and when I did good in school my mother would buy me a nice paper and pens. I would use this to create drawings! I still love me some nice stationery and would give myself one if I feel down! Nothing has changed really =)

If you were a child today, what would be your ideal treat or reward? Perhaps it didn’t even exist when you were a child?
My son loves minifigs so when he has done something and when we want him to do a certain task be is a school or home one we buy him the latest mini fig series! He has got a massive collection now =)

hydra234 · 30/07/2015 11:43

Walking to the corner shop with my Dad on a Saturday morning, as long as I had been good in the week, getting to choose 10p worth of sweets. Used to take me ages!!! A big treat that happened when I had done well at school I could choose a new Sweet Valley High Book, still fancy Todd now......

mylifemylove · 30/07/2015 11:46

I used to love it when I was good at school and I could get a packet of Care Bear stickers for my album. Loved it! Now I'm the parent getting Minion cards for my step sons album! X

Xd4ni3ll3x · 30/07/2015 11:46

I was the only young one in my house as all my half sister and half brother were grown up. Only thing with that was I was spoilt. I'll admit it Wink but I had rewards for being good at school or cleaning out the rabbits hutch. But I did have money when I wanted it. I didn't have pocket money as some of my friends did because they had younger siblings etc.
I have just had my first baby girl who was born in February. I won't make the mistake my parents did and spoil her. I'll have a reward system in place when she gets older and understands that good will get you something good back. I think rewarding is a very good way to help children learn how to be polite and understand this is the way to get rewards x

arabella99 · 30/07/2015 12:19

I remember when we were small that during the school holidays we were allowed two sweets a day. My mother would produce a bag of large liquorice comfits and gobstoppers at sometime in the day and we could choose only two but they did seem enormous at that age. And I also remember that when she said we were no longer getting Easter Eggs it didn't bother us at all. She told us we were too old (we were probably 7 and 8) but that we would have an Easter present instead. I'm sure she regretted that decision because she was forever cleaning out our Easter Hamsters cages for years after ;-)

supertoysuniverse · 30/07/2015 12:59

One of my most favourite treats I would get from my Nana. A mars bar cut into even slices.

They just seemed to taste great like that!

aster1x · 30/07/2015 14:02

I didn't get treats often - my mum believed that for a treat to remain special, you couldn't have it very often. I would particularly get treats when we were going on holiday - some special sweets to take in the car, a new joke book, or an activity book and a new pen to go with it - something that I loved, but I now recognise was a treat designed by my mum to make sure I stayed quiet on the journey!! :-)
However, for me, my biggest treat were the occasions when I was allowed to choose an item of clothing for myself, or a toy, or a book - most of the time my mum chose it for me - and to be honest, she chose well!

sheilads105 · 30/07/2015 14:16

I remember my parents letting my sister and me walk to the village shop to buy comics (Jinty and Jackie usually) as a treat for helping with housework. The comics lasted us all week as there were so many great stories in them

What were your favourite childhood treats and rewards? Tell LEGO® and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED
von83 · 30/07/2015 14:36

When I was a kid, if I did well at school, like a good report, I'd usually get £1/2, a little packets of sweets or chocolate. If I was good and helpful, I'd get a comic/magazine. Kids these days are spoilt, even the schools are incentivising them to do what they're there to do! And older kids expect more and more treats. My eldest son, who is 12, has been brought up to appreciate what he gets like I was, but I wonder if deep down, he expects more like other kids. But I don't want him to be spoilt rotten and disappointed when life doesn't constantly reward you with everything you ever wanted! Our little man is only 1, but he'll be brought up the same way - to modest rewards. I think with the schools offering rewards left, right and centre, it also puts pressure on parents to do the same and as well as making children spoilt, it sets up to make them disappointed in adult likfe - you go to work, you get on with your job, you don't get rewards everytime you do what you're supposed to be doing. In most jobs, you don't even get a reward if you go above and beyond your duties, so it's all just setting them up for disappointment in adult if you ask me. I know most people might see me as pessimistic, but I'd like to think I'm realistic. And I want my children to grow up realistic too. And one day when they have children, I hope they'll be able to give their children realism too!

marymanc · 30/07/2015 16:58

A Philadelphia block (it wasn't as creamy as today) with lots of sugar on it (not ideal but really tasty). Also chocolate with nuts in it.

MamaMummyMum · 30/07/2015 18:17

I always remember my dad used to take me to the local corner shop when he had weekends off to pick out a comic and a sweetie, highlight of my week :)

mumsbe · 30/07/2015 20:06

10p mix up and arts and crafts such as peg dolls with parachute.
Loads of fun and alao 99 from the ice cream van (which actually cost 99p)

musicalprof · 30/07/2015 22:26

Oh yes, 10p mix up for me too &, conversely, a bag of grapes, my favourite fruit.

shewhomustbeEbayed · 30/07/2015 22:57

My parents left chocolate bars, like mars bars, by our beds when we woke up on Sunday morning with explicit instructions that we couldn't disturb them until a set time, looking back I wonder what they got up to !

joyule · 31/07/2015 06:58

Lucky packets -loved them even thou u get them to they back not the same as back in the day

Orangeisthenewbanana · 31/07/2015 09:13

Whenever my Nan came to visit, she would take us all down to Woolworths and would buy us a bag each of pick 'n mix and one for herself. Of course ours all disappeared quite quickly, so she would sneak us extras out of her bag Smile

After her funeral a couple of years ago, my sisters and I went and got some pick 'n mix from the local shop and stuffed our faces with it all evening in her memory!

Bellebella · 31/07/2015 09:16

We used to like getting some pocket money on a Friday to go down the cornor shop. Me and my sister would buy a bottle of pop, some sweets and a magazine usually something like Girl Talk or Bliss.

Now prices have gone up so much, I would have to give my son a lot more to get all that.

I also thought a new book was a massive treat, I loved reading as a child so would be very happy if my mum bought me the new Jacqueline Wilson book.

mummyrunnerbean · 31/07/2015 09:59

My sister and I both have midwinter birthdays so there was never a lot of excitement in the summer, until one year my mum took us to a big department store the day after she got our end of year school reports and told us we'd done so well we could each choose.any toy we wanted. It was the most exciting thing ever as it was so unexpected. My sister.chose a.cuddly dog about the size of her bed, and I got a furby which I'd wanted for ages. It was amazing. Other than that treats were occasional and random - baking was always a big treat, as was going swimming.

Pumpkinette · 31/07/2015 10:18

Dick turtle lucky bag form the newsagents on a Friday after school

Beano comic on a Saturday when I stayed at my grans house

10p mix from the icecream van on occasion.

I also have find memories of puffy stickers and flocked stickers - I loved stickers as a child but these were particularly great. The flocked ones were small animals like hamsters, rabbits etc

I always wanted a pic n mix from Woolworth's as they has Cadbury Rosie's and Quality street chocolates all separated. I dreamed of having a bag full of nothing but strawberry creams. I think if I could go back to childhood and have something it would be that.

joeyhanmum · 31/07/2015 15:34

Chocolate buttons as a treat from my grandpa. I love buying them now as an occasional reward for my daughter. Plus many of the other things mentioned by previous posters - books, especially Chalet School; Wade Whimsies; stationery etc. my daughter loves stickers but at 2 is not really on 'rewards' much yet.