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Moonlite Gift Packs

Moonlite Gift Packs

If you are looking for something to make bedtime a little easier for your younger children, you’ve come to the right review. The Moonlite Gift Packs sets by Moonlite World bring old and new stories to life. Retailing at $45.00, each set comes with five reels/stories and a projector device. There are many different sets …

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Artie Max™ The Coding Robot

Artie Max™ The Coding Robot

Parent testers were over the moon about this innovative, interactive, and fun way to teach kids coding – a subject becoming more and more popular among kids and a core skill for many of them as they enter the workforce. Artie Max teaches simple, step-by-step coding lessons. Artie is a cute little robot that travels …

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Pawz The Calming Pup™

Parents were effusive with their praise of Pawz The Calming Pup. From the Pawz name to the concept behind it and the execution, every aspect drew raves. Mindfulness and developing your emotional IQ are just as important as any other skill. Parents were more than thrilled to discover this toy to help their children better …

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Mark-My-Time Digital Booklight

The concept of having a bookmark made out of sturdy plastic with a small but effective light attached for nighttime reading was seen by testers as both convenient and ingenious. There is more than a reading light here; included is a digital clock/timer/alarm with an easy-to-read face. This feature is a great way to encourage …

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Geomate Jr.

Geomate Jr.

If you liked the movie National Treasure, if you like the idea of finding buried treasures, if you want to discover an amazing family-bonding, outdoor activity, this is it. If you have never heard of geocaching, the subculture of treasure hunters who bury and discover “caches” throughout the world, you really should check it out. …

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V.Reader

V.Reader

Leave it to VTech to push the educational toy envelope once again. The V.Reader is a marvelous piece of technology that really delivers what it promises, an exciting and engaging, fun learning experience. The V.Reader is roughly the size of a child’s book, very easy to hold and features a great screen protector. Children, perhaps …

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MobiGo Touch Learning System

There are many electronic learning toys on the market to choose from. Some have built-in screens, others attach to the TV. Some emphasize reading, others focus on writing. The MobiGo Touch is the new hybrid of all these features and our testers loved it. It looks like a larger version of a grown up mobile …

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Kidzoom Plus

Kidzoom Plus

For those who might look at the colorful plastic casing and dismiss the Kidzoom Plus as a toy camera, look again! Our testers could not rave enough not just about how appealing the camera is to their children to about the amazing quality of the pictures and video it took. They could not get over …

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Picture Keeper 8GB

Picture Keeper 8GB

This is truly one of the coolest devices we have seen this year. No, there are no whiz bang effects with lights and sounds but plug it into your computer’s USB port and you will fall in love with it. All you do is insert the flash drive into the port, wait for the window …

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Fuji Enviromax Batteries

In our battery powered lives we use them like crazy, but how often do we think about the impact all these batteries have on our environment? According to our testers, the answer was a sheepish “not at all”. These brand new batteries from the people at Fuji are impressive in that no ozone-depleting compounds are …

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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

* 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 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 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

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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