The good things

 One of the good things about my childhood was Summer Reading Club. The local public library did this; from about age 5 until age 12 (though I think I was already 7 or 8 when they started it), you could get a little paper folder and bring in a list of the books you'd read every week, and get "stickers" (actually pieces of paper you stuck down with a glue stick after coloring in) that created a little scene. Like there was a "build a monster" one with eyes and noses and stuff, and I think there was a horse-themed one with a meadow and horses?

I don't know. I just liked the recognition for reading books, which was something I'd do anyway.

This was well before the Pizza Hut "Book It!" promotion, and at any rate, there wasn't a Pizza Hut in my town. We did get coupons for small things (small fries, an ice cream cone, a small hamburger) from McDonald's for something like 10, 25, or 50 books read, but there also wasn't a McDonald's in town, so we never actually used the ones we got. 

I think libraries still do them; I've occasionally seen them advertised here in recent years. I suspect there always will be kids who like reading and like whatever reward things they do now (I'm guessing it's maybe all digital now, no real stickers)

Once I aged out of the program, I volunteered to help it a few years - went in for a couple hours a week and listened to kids talk about their books, and handed out stickers and crayons and helped "the littlies" with the glue stick. I liked doing it even if I'm not a big "kid" person, and on some level it felt like giving back to a program I had enjoyed when I was a kid.