The National Parenting Center

Seal of Approval Report

Seat Pets

Seat Pets

Unique, adorable and easy to install these new padded shoulder harness covers impressed parents and delighted children. Seat Pets are smooth and soft like a fuzzy pillow. The bright colors are exciting and appealing but where Seat Pets really shine is in their ability to prop children’s heads up when they fall asleep during long […]

Spirituality For Kids

Spirituality For Kids

This non-denominational website focuses on teaching children about making the right choices so that they can create happy and fulfilling lives for themselves. Parents found the site to be quite comprehensive and thought-provoking. While the site carefully steers clear of specific religious dogma it does describe the spiritual being as “the light” which opens the

Test Pilot Vortex Halo

Test Pilot Vortex Halo

Turn on the LED light, carefully place the Halo on top of the hand-held launcher and pull the rip cord as hard and as fast as you can. That’s all you have to do to make the magic happen. The Vortex Halo will launch into the sky, spinning like a top until it loses steam

RingStix

RingStix

OK, here’s the deal, when parents first saw RingStix they were taken aback, after all they look like swords. Really? You want us to test toy swords? Not even close. This is without a doubt one of the most unique toss and catch toys we have ever seen. With a “sword” in each hand you

Backyard Safari Lazer Light Bug Vacuum

If you have a child who is fascinated by bugs, both the flying and crawling type, you can be sure their eyes will light up when they see this cool vacuum for “collecting samples” for study. By using the suction, which is NOT on par with your vacuum cleaner, but much gentler to pick up

Backyard Safari Cargo Vest

Backyard Safari Cargo Vest

What a blast our little outdoor explorers, budding paleontologists and/bird/bug/spider/creepy-crawly watchers had when they donned this great Cargo Vest. The vest is made of high quality material that is both durable and lightweight, plus it is stain resistant making it very easy to clean. It is loaded with pockets and pouches for collecting bugs, rocks,

SPORTOS

SPORTOS

This innovative wooden puzzle provided testers with hours of entertainment while tapping into logic and problem solving skills. The set includes 71 pieces of rubber wood (a sustainable wood) that come in a variety of shapes and colors. There are 48 cards with figures that children can recreate. In this set the theme is obviously

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab

Glow-in-the-Dark Lab features twenty experiments where your budding scientist (mad or the normal kind) can conjure up some truly cool projects. The directions are wonderfully laid out and so easy to follow. In no time testers were creating glow ink, glow in the dark creatures of all sorts, glowing bouncy balls and everyone’s favorite, glow

Speedeebee

Speedeebee

You have to think fast to be the speediest bee in the round as players answer challenges from the stack of 50 cards with 3 brain teasers each. “Name something you could find in a forest containing this letter (throw the die of your choice).” After rolling an “M”, players could yell out “moss,” “moose,”

Shrimp Cocktail

Shrimp Cocktail

Clearly in the world of Blue Orange rectangle playing cards are so 2010. This is a matching game that is more challenging and involved than you might believe given the fact that there is a squeezable star fish inside this tin can. The game is all about matching shrimp that have four varying characteristics that

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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