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Outdoor Play

90 Eagle Series Zipline Kit

How cool is this? Your very own Zipline! Testers were so excited, we had nonstop lines waiting for turns to try it out.. You’ll need 90 feet of space between two sturdy trees to start. Once you determine that your yard qualifies, you are just thirty minutes away from zipping down your very own line. […]

50 Slackline Classic Set

A combination tightrope and balance beam, this Slackline wowed testers. The set comes with all the materials you need to set up your own line in short order. The instructions and the materials received very high marks from testers for being well made, strong and quite durable. When first starting out you can use the

Slackers Brake Kit

Slackers Brake Kit

If you have rigged up a zipline in your backyard there is no doubt that it saw plenty of action this summer. One of the things we hear from parents with these ziplines is that after a while kids start wanting to go faster. As a parent you want to give your kids what they

Beach Stamps

Beach Stamps

If you haven’t discovered kinetic (or synthetic) sand yet, what are you waiting for?!! It’s really cool and awesome and rad, etc. Anyway, once you have your “fake” sand it’s time to explore all the things you can do with it and one of the first things you are going to want to do is

Fish N Splash Water Table

Fish N Splash Water Table

Water play is the stuff of childhood summers and MGA has created a water play station that proved to be a favorite with our testers. The table is a perfect height for toddlers and delivered endless hours of laughs and entertainment as everyone enjoyed watching the water splash in all sorts of ways. Kids loved

Jungle Jumparoo

Jungle Jumparoo

Testers have told us that when starting the assembly of something as big as Jungle Jumparoo there is always the concern that the building process will be overly complicated with missing pieces, etc. Not the case with Jungle Jumparoo. Testers had high praise for the ease with which this big activity set was assembled. Once

Backyard Safari Bug Podz

Ant and bug farms have been around forever, now ALEX introduces a habitat for your child’s small crawling friends. Kids (OK, mainly boys) loved having a collection of bugs crawling around different configurations of tubes and spheres. They also liked the ability this set gave them to reconfigure the various parts to create new alternatives

Batapult

Batapult

For anyone who is a baseball fan, has ever played baseball or has ever seen a baseball bat, your first impression of Batapult is probably going to be disoriented or freaked out or any number of other emotions that happen when you see something so entirely different. You see, the Batapult has a hinge in

Ride Along Dolly

Ride Along Dolly

This doll bike seat attachment allows girls to have their dolls ride with them on their bikes. While parents attached the seat to the bike, excited girls gathered their dolls to determine who would get the first ride. The decision had to be made quickly since the connection onto the bike is very easy. Once

Crush-It! Bat

Crush-It! Bat

We need to start this review by stating that the Crush-It! Bat is one of the coolest looking pieces of sporting equipment we have even seen in our testing centers. The bright, almost neon colored strings that form the barrel of the bat are quite eye-catching. Beyond looking cool, the effect these strings have on

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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