Share your DCs proudest moments with LEGO® Juniors and be in with a chance to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher and LEGO Junior play sets!NOW CLOSED

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We all want our DC to grow up with confidence and pride in everything they do, whether it’s making a structurally sound lollipop stick bridge or finally mastering the art of writing their own name. LEGO® Juniors would like to hear what your DC's proudest moments have been and how you encouraged them to achieve them.

Here’s what LEGO Juniors has to say: ‘NO is a word that is used a lot when you’re a parent, especially when your DC reach that age when they feel ready to explore and challenge boundaries. LEGO Juniors offer parents a way to support their children’s development at a time in life when their children go from being very dependent and in need of parental control, to becoming young and aspiring individuals that want to do everything by themselves.’

So what have your DC's proudest moments been and how have you encouraged them to build their confidence? Did you bravely take a step away from NO-LAND and say YES to letting them explore their independence and creativity? Or perhaps you kept on encouraging them so that one day they were finally able to colour inside the lines? Maybe they actually surprised you with their ability in a particular area or they might have made what to an outsider would seem like a small achievement but you know to be a major win.

Whatever your DC's proudest moments are, please share them below and you will be entered into a prize draw where you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher, a LEGO Junior Fire Patrol Suitcase, or a LEGO Junior Mia’s Farm Suitcase. Please also share photos of their successes and achievements below; we’d love to see them.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Definitely school achievement.

I'm proud of both of my children, every single day - for trying hard at school, even in the things they aren't great at, for being polite and using their manners, for being kind & caring, for thinking things through and having empathy for others, for being generous and caring & sharing. Don't get me wrong, that isn't that they are perfect and do everything right all the time - they need reminders - but overall, they are smashing little people who I hope will turn out well in this world.

My most recent really proud moment though was just over a week ago when my 10 year old swam 5km! 200 lengths, in just over 2 hours!! And that from a kid who when I started his lessons, age 4, used to cry through every single lesson for months and months and months. I was so proud of all he had overcome and what a massive achievement that was - I cried...

I'm super proud of my 5 year old every day. He learned to ride a bike at 4 years old, in 30 minutes, with no stabilisers and never having rode a pedal bike before. He was so happy. He struggled with his reading and concentration but he's come along in leaps and bounds the past 6 months and he's catching up at an alarming speed. He amazes me every day.

I'm so proud of how much my daughter looks after her little brother she is always sticking up for him and making sure he is ok. It makes me so proud!

I am so proud of my son and the way he has adapted to becoming a big brother. He is five and we tried for years to give him a sibling and was an only child for so long that we worried how he would be.
He is amazing. From the moment our second was born, my eldest has doted on him. Holding him in the hospital, he told him he loved him so much and waited so long to have him as his best friend. And that's what they are. My eldest writes him letters when he's in school and when he comes home, my baby's face lights up. The bond in unbreakable and we are so so proud of him xxx

I'm really proud of my daughter when she overcomes her fears of both being with people she doesn't know, and not being able to do what's being asked of her. New situations are often hard, new swimming lesson classes especially so. The pride on her face this week when she told me she got her hands flat on the bottom doing handstands at swimming was brilliant, especially as it's not so many weeks ago she wouldn't go in the water in her new class without me being sat at the side.

Our toddler excelling at swimming. Holding on while we glide, swimming underwater to the top.

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Not the loveliest of subjects but when our very later starter did his first poo on the toilet at almost 4 was a pretty proud moment for all of us.

My daughter was bullied all through primary school because she was so quiet. The bully was so much smaller than her. It took her 3 years but she eventually stood up to the bully, after numerous trips to the school. The day it happened she came in grinning from ear to ear with handfuls of hair falling out and there was no more problems after that. I was really proud of her as she had to screw up a lot of courage to face this other girl down then she went back to her happy, quiet self.

So proud of my children for coping with a big move which took us away from friends and family. Especially proud of dd who left her nursery and has recently moved schools within the school year. She has coped amazingly.

I'm proud of my DD as she's shown me recently how much she puts her friends before herself. Considering she's only 3, this definitely made me tear up when she came home from nursery with a story about her friends!!

The look on DD's dace when she rode her bike without stabilisers for the first time was priceless - she was so pleased with herself! Making the swing go by herself was another proud moment for her (and very happy for me as I no longer had to push her!)

I wish this forum had likes, there have been so many wonderful comments i want to put big love hearts on them all!!

My daughter has always been a determined little miss but when she started at school she was branded 'weird' because she liked to read. She'd already reached such an amazing milestone- reading for fun!

She brushed off the label and challenged herself to read 365 books in a year aged 5 and finished in just 10 months!! The day she finished her books was amazing- the last book she chose to read was about the human body and she bloody loved it! We encouraged her every step of the way and so did our local library- it was a special time for all of us. She was so pleased with herself but it didn't stop her reading.. she's still going!

She is a massive fan of Blue Peter and wrote to them to tell them about her reading challenge, when they came out to interview her i have never seen a child more in awe of the entire experience and being given the badge was like she had won the lottery! It is her prized possession. She was determined to earn more and she now has 6!

She then challenged herself to write her own book and she spent every day for 4 months acting it out, writing brainstorms, typing it all up. It's a great story and she's so proud of all her hard work. I thought she was nuts when she told me she wanted to write a book about the aurora borealis and i tried to get her to try something 'simpler' but when she told me what her plans for the book were i just couldn't deter her, she had a vision and i had no place to sully it.

Everything she does starts as a challenge but it ends as an accomplishment. I'm in awe of her every day.

I posted on this recently:

"...you often wear girly clothes, and now you've got a ponytail."
Ds "Boys can have ponytails. What you wear doesn't change who you are. I'm a boy and I like long hair and I like bright colours."
NCh "Don't you care if people think you're a girl?"
Ds shrugs. "It's silly if people mix up what you wear with what you are. It's not like my clothes are a uniform, or something."

I am proud of ds's increasing sense of self-worth, his confidence in his identity and his politeness in dealing with challenges to it.

This is a child who has had - and still struggles with - self-confidence and being bullied.

Mainly a lot of first times doing something without help, like feeding themselves, getting dressed by themselves etc, all of the "No! My do it" moments. I helped by doing it for them and talking through each step, then doing it with them (e.g. both holding the spoon) then doing parts and letting them do parts, and finally just standing there cheering them on while they did it themselves

My proudest moments are when I see them being kind to someone (especially when they don't know I'm watching) helping someone, sharing nicely even if it's something like sweets and means they get less. They manage to make me proud every day and I try to tell them that, I may not manage every day but I try to tell them daily

A little girl we look after has been thriving on "I love how you just keep on trying, that's amazing because that's what makes you great, we're so proud of you" which has given her the confidence to try and fail and try ahain rather than steering herself only to things she's confident she may be 'good' at. Think it's a tactic I read in a book or blog somewhere to use rather than a generic 'good job' praise, and the switch has definitely had positive effects!

I'm so unbelievably proud of my DD, who at 15 is doing great.
A steady BF, applying for jobs now for the summer, made it up to Lance Corporal in her Cadet force, soon starting to be a St. John's Ambulance cadet too so she can prepare herself for becoming a paramedic (her dream job)..
A really nice, kind and friendly kid who helps out with her DB all the time, who has no anger towards her idiot Dad, who pretty much abandoned her 3 years ago...a girl who loves her DB, DSF & me and just spoilt us with sweets and chocolates she got on her school trip to France.
We don't have the kind of lovey dicey relationship, never have, but we tell eachother in our own way how much we mean to one another...I usually get a text saying "Thanks Mum, Love Youxxx" and I do the same, or make sure all her washing is clean, cook her favourite dinner (tagliatelle) or see that her bed is made when she's had a tough time at Cadets or college.
She really is an amazing young lady and I'm so proud of her. Can't wait to see what the next decade holds for her. I'm very lucky indeed

I'm very proud of both my sons after coming home yesterday with glowing reports from parents evening.
Hearing the teacher say that my son was such a good role model and that she wished she had a class full of him made me very proud.

i am so proud of my eldest who haslearnt to count upto 100 by himself!!! The boy that could only count upto 10 and 20 at a push has come leaps and bounds in just a few weeks and now can count upto 100. Was shouting it in the way home from school....sooo proud!

Taking my really shy nervous child to an unfamiliar park and watching him run of f and play with the other kids

I was so proud of my DD when she excelled at the driving school in Legoland last year! Go DD!!

We lived in Canada for a couple of years and the first year came when visits to the skating rink were part of the weekly PE lessons. My oldest son of primary school age surprised me when he said that he wanted to learn to skate before he visited the rink with the school. Presumably most of the other children of his age already knew how to skate. As a matter of pride he wanted to be able to step on the ice as a skater. So during a weeks half term holiday we asked our friend who teaches skating to Children to give him some pointers then he practised nearly every day. When he went back to School he was able to skate and felt proud that he had achieved this and felt confident amongst his peer group.

I am so proud of my daughters. They work hard at school and are generally well behaved, but more importantly they are kind girls, aware of the feelings of others and the impact their own and others' actions can have. When I met a parent out of school and we got talking, I was so proud to hear "Oh yes, I know (DD), she is always so nice to my child."