The National Parenting Center

Seal of Approval Report

Learn & Spin Aquarium™

The Learn & Spin Aquarium was a hit with both parents and children but for different reasons. Babies loved the bright colors and sounds. They also delighted in pressing the buttons and seeing the instant cause and effect of their action. There are lots of options, and each action yields an instant result that ranges […]

GearZooz™ GearBuddies Lion & Mouse™

This is a bright, well-designed toy which offers kids an introduction to gears, and is mixed with fun songs, jokes and stories. Very visually appealing to our young testers, they gravitated to the bright, colorful, happy looking (and most importantly from a parent’s perspective) sturdy toy. Parents also noted with appreciation the feature that allows

Go! Go! Smart Wheels Assortment ‐ (Helicopter, Police Car, Truck)

In our testing centers, Go! Go! Smart Wheels have proven time and time again to be appealing, fun toys for toddlers who love any toy with wheels. With this new assortment, VTech has added a police car, truck, and helicopter to the lineup of vehicles that are also compatible with previous releases in the line.

My First Learning Tablet™

If you have kids that are interested in your smart phone, tablet or iPad, hahahahaha, IF! Like your kids aren’t! OK, moving on, you have kids who love electronics, we all do. Now, more than just pushing our buttons they want to tap screens. This is where My First Learning Tablet comes in to save

Tads Fridge Phonics™

LeapFrog takes the cake (and another Seal of Approval) with Tads Fridge Phonics. This wonderful new toy provides not only fun and entertainment; it is also loaded with great educational value. According to our testers, the quality of this toy is superb and the ingenuity leaves others in its dust. The scores in every category

Little Luv Pets Scruff-a-Luvs

Parents and animal lovers fell head over heels for this adorable plush toy that is brimming with a positive message that really resonated with our testers. Scruff-a-Luvs arrive at your home as a very sad looking ball of dry fur. The disheveled state is such that it’s hard to determine precisely what it is. When

Fur Babie World Dream Tree

Many of you reading this review are already familiar with Fur Babies. For the uninitiated, Fur Babies are little unique-looking plush pets with super soft fur, a hard face and movable eyes and ears. Your children can stick their fingers into the back of the pets head to wiggle their eyes and waggle their ears.

Maze-O Starter Set

Maze-O Starter Set

After two months of testing, Maze-O Starter Set emerged as one of our testers favorite, fun, new STEM products. This starter set comes with everything that is required, batteries are NOT needed! Isn’t that refreshing? Some starter sets only come with a few items to get you hooked and leave you wanting more. This set

Ravensburger Jurassic Park Danger! Game

Ravensburger Jurassic Park Danger! Game

New, adventurous board games are always appealing especially when a family with kids 10 and Up get excited about it. Jurassic Park is an ideal theme for a game like this – familiar, intriguing and mysterious. The package is terrific, inviting, appealing and gets everyone eager to begin playing. The instructions are easy to follow

Ravensburger Big Money

Ravensburger Big Money

Remember Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ravensburger has upped the stakes in this new wealth accumulation game that could be called Who Wants To Be ZILLIONAIRE! Actually the concept here is comparable to a simplified version of Monopoly. The difference in this game is that the investments are updated and more fun than 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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