The National Parenting Center

Seal of Approval Report

Jeepers Peepers

Jeepers Peepers

This wonderfully unique and delightful game enchanted testers, especially the younger ones who couldn’t wait to get their hands on the multicolored glasses. The game is completely fun but that doesn’t keep it from being quite educational at the same time. Children will be learning skills that help them question and enhance their problem solving […]

Math Detective Beginning

Math Detective Beginning

The review of this book needs to begin and end with an emphasis on the fact that this is NOT your ordinary math workbook. A wonderful assortment of problems and scenarios demonstrate how math is all around us and is in fact an integral part of everyday activities. Comprehension is key here, children cannot simply

Reading Detective Al

Reading Detective Al

If you are looking for a tool to enhance your child’s reading comprehension take a long hard look at this terrific offering from The Critical Thinking Company. Using a higher-order thinking technique it develops and advances comprehension in ways that just astounded our parent testers. What makes it all work is the quality of the

Yoomi for Duo

Yoomi for Duo

We have all marveled at the iPad, it truly qualifies as a technological game changer. Discovery Bay has designed a first of its kind mechanical device that sits on top of your iPad and using light signals activates the mechanism. The Duo unit works with apps that are being developed and will be released. The

Lets Choose

Lets Choose

A great, new game that helps children learn about the natural consequences of their actions, Let’s Choose impressed our testers with its unique concept. The directions took just a few minutes to read and process. It is a game that kids enjoyed but parents especially loved that they could use it as a method to

Gummi Mat

Gummi Mat

The Gummi Mat is a superb idea for the parent of any toddler or baby. The mat which comes in a variety of colors has a no-slide knobby side that makes it so much easier for babies to grab food like those elusive Cheerios that love to slide away. The sticky material keeps the mat

Square Shooters Deluxe Game Set

Square Shooters Deluxe Game Set

This is one of the most unique and amazing inventions you will ever see. While the idea may appear to be a simple one, put a deck of cards on dice, the calculations involved in doing it in such a way that you can play classic card games like rummy, poker and blackjack with them

Just Look

Just Look

Some of the most interesting things come in the smallest packages. That certainly was the case with Just Look, a palm sized, portable microscope that just invited up-close exploration of everything. Ever wonder what your skin or nails look like magnified ten times? How about a leaf, hair, wood? The unit comes with a light

Twist & Drill

A nice twist on traditional introductory tool sets for children. This set lets kids actually put together cars and trucks, its not just about learning how to turn a screw or pound with a hammer. It was great seeing kids as young as four and five being able to grasp the concept and with little

Volcanic Disaster-Eruption Prediction Card Game

A game with a premise of this kind might strike some as being a strictly educational experience. They would be mistaken. This is a game of strategy and luck where fortunes can shift quickly. Yes, players are gaining an incredible amount of knowledge about volcanos and what causes them, but the game play raises the

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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