The National Parenting Center

Seal of Approval Report

Milkies Milk Tray

Milkies Milk Tray

The Milkies Milk Tray is a brilliant idea and a very useful product that all breast-feeding mothers should know about. The issue of defrosting milk in too large of a quantity plagues many parents. It is painful to throw out milk that had been defrosted and could no longer be stored. With the Milk Trays, […]

Milkies Breast Milk Storage Bags

Milkies Breast Milk Storage Bags

Nursing moms told us again and again that after trying multiple brands of breast milk storage bags, Milkies were the clear favorite. First and foremost these bags are thick. Not only is this important when storing bags so they dont burst but it is also helpful when transferring pumped milk from a bottle to the

Milkies Softies Nursing Pads

Milkies Softies Nursing Pads

Looking for the most comfortable nursing pad on the market? Look no further. Our nursing mother testers who had been through a wide variety of leakage solutions were ecstatic about finding Milkies Softies. Not only incredibly comfortable but they keep you dry. We never heard a single negative issue raised about these pads. Milkies Softies

Moodster Feelings Flashlight

Moodster Feelings Flashlight

JellyJam has created a book and flashlight set designed help children connect with their feelings. If you saw the wonderful movie “Inside Out,” you’ll recognize the gist here. The Moodster characters represent a child’s inner feelings. They introduce these five characters/five feelings in a story that features the fear Moodster.Parents appreciated the effort to help

Moodster Mirror

Moodster Mirror

The Moodster Mirror with Coordinating Storybook is designed to help children 3 and up to learn about and understand feelings, and that their faces can and do match how they feel on the inside. Parents liked that the Moodster set teaches vocabulary to help children express their feelings along with skills to cope with them.

Pop! Goes the Easel

Pop! Goes the Easel

This CD is a great collection of familiar kids songs whose lyrics were reworked to celebrate art and music. Parents told us that it was a wonderful introduction and conversation-starter for kids to learn about famous works of art that they may not have been exposed to before. It piqued a newfound curiosity that led

Shopping Cart Hammock

Shopping Cart Hammock

Our favorite comment from this testing period was: Whoever came up with the idea for the Binxy Baby shopping cart hammock is a GENIUS!! Do we need to say more? Of course we do so here goes. Weve all seen the parents who clip their babys car seat to the top of the shopping cart.

Happy Salmon

Happy Salmon

Our testers has a blast playing Happy Salmon. It is one of the craziest, wackiest, fastest paced games you will ever find. The packaging is admittedly a little silly, a smiling salmon, but it did the trick, it intrigued testers to give it a whirl. You can play this with 3-6 players. Without a doubt,

Rule Crazy Starter Edition

Rule Crazy is a fun and captivating game that entices young children to read – perfect for beginners to be able to practice and learn new words. The game is very easy to learn and intuitive right out of the box. This is a game that focuses on creating fun, random sentences your child comes

Beary Rumple

Beary Rumple

This super cute bear and is not your average stuffed animal. The Rumple Buddies bear is made out of a super soft but textured fabric so its gentile against the baby while also stimulating because its got a bumpy texture. The high contrasting colors of red, black, and white really capture and hold the attention

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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