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Your Baby Can Read!

Your Baby Can Read!

Much has been read and written about this series of early childhood educational videos and tools. We were curious to see how the deluxe set would fare in our testing facilities. Reports and reviews were quite positive as parents told us that their children really liked watching the DVD’s, mimicking the motions and saying the […]

Your Child Can Read!

Your Child Can Read!

Many parents are intimidated by the responsibility placed on them to teach their children to read these days at earlier and earlier ages. Those parents will find this series to be like finding a good friend in a time of need. Children in our testing facilities were immediately engaged, repeating the words they were asked

Your Baby Can Speak! Spanish or French

If you are looking for methods to introduce your child to another language in the hopes of guiding them towards being at least slightly bilingual, this should be on your short list of programs to consider. Your Baby Can is well crafted and certainly makes the process of learning a second language fun, if your

Webber HearBuilder - Following Directions

This interactive, computer-based game targets listening skills with such focus that parents were stunned, not only at how engaged their children were with a product that was so behaviorally based, but how remarkably effective it was. Using games that are fun and diverse, the program uses varying skill levels to capture and engage the child.

Webber HearBuilder - Phonological Awareness

A tremendous tool for helping to build your child’s phonological awareness and auditory skills this CD will engage and create a desire within them to achieve. Parents reported that the software was very easy and intuitive for them to use. The instructional booklet provides a superb outline of the skills that are being developed at

Phonics Vol. I

Phonics Vol. I

Rock ‘N Learn has made the business of creating fun learning videos an art form. They just know how to do it and time after time again our testers have recognized their skill with appreciative reviews. This video starts out with basic sounds then moves seamlessly to words and simple sentences. The age appropriateness of

Little Pim Spanish 3-Pak

We received overwhelmingly positive reviews for Little Pim, a 3 DVD set that will teach your child Spanish words and phrases. Young children were captivated by their new video friend, a Panda who makes learning a new language a fun adventure. The connection to the character had children enthusiastically repeating words in both English and

I Can Do It! Potty Training System

Included in this potty training system you will find everything you need to start your toddler on the road to potty independence. Parents found all the tips and suggestions to be right on the money. The included book, which is to be shared and read together is quite helpful in getting your child to comprehend

Building Thinking Skills Level 1

Building Thinking Skills Level 1

This easy to use, inexpensive and highly effective tool for teaching critical thinking skills really scored with parent testers. Designed to be used specifically with lower elementary students, especially those with less than fully developed spatial skills, the approach is really quite effective. The program gives the student several ways of learning through different activities.

Balance Benders

Balance Benders

This fabulous book of mind stimulating logic problems really impressed with it ability to help children develop their deductive and pre-algebra skills. Each page in the book shows a balanced scale holding various combinations of shapes. The objective is to select the statement where both sides are equal. It might sound basic and easy but

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’24 February 15th March 13th April 19th May 8th
FALL ’24 June 1st June 24th July 31st August 15th
HOLIDAY ’24 September 1st September 24th October 31st November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners will be announced in a media release distributed to over 4,700 media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There was three testing periods each year:

Each submission was accompanied by a small product testing fee (we offered multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners was announced in a media release distributed to over many media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report were forwarded to buyers retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report were featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’23 February 15th March 10th April 24th May 10th
FALL ’23 June 1st June 23rd July 31st August 16th
HOLIDAY ’23 September 1st September 22nd October 30th November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period

SPRING '24

FALL ‘24

HOLIDAY ‘24

Testing Begins

February 15th

June 1st

September 1st

Submission Deadline

March 13th

June 23rd

September 24th

Testing Ends

April 26th

July 31st

October 31st

Report Issued

May 14th

August 15th

November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

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