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Juba

Juba

Juba is a marvelous example of what happens when truly committed, creative minds get together to create a fun and interactive website for young children. Clearly the Juba creators were tasked with designing a site that embraced the concept of whole brain teaching. There are loads of learning opportunities including numerous ways to enhance your …

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Cabanga

Cabanga

This is without a doubt one of the most ingenious, cool and fun ways to learn math in a “real-life” setting. Hats off to Six Red Marbles for totally wowing our testers. Utilizing a faux celebrity world to convey math techniques while linking it to and promoting financial literacy is a stroke of genius, especially …

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Edmodo

Edmodo

Edmodo takes students, teachers and parents to communicative heights that no social network has yet to figure out. Setup and control are all in the teacher’s hands. The site only allows questions to be posed to the whole class or directly to the teacher. Direct interaction between students or private messaging is not an option …

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Vocabulary And SpellingCity.com

Who amongst us can’t use a little spelling and vocabulary brushing up? Vkidz knows the answer is all of us and still they went ahead and created a website to help the youngest amongst us (our kids). It is a site that really is focused on helping children with spelling and vocabulary work from school. …

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Time4Learning.com

Time4Learning.com

Time4Learning impressed our testers for providing them with a new method for utilizing technology in their child’s learning, especially in the homeschooling environment. Combining lessons with a nice variety of educational teaching games, students can enhance and/or reinforce their education. Subjects include language arts, science, math, social studies and more from preschool right through middle …

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Ohanarama

Ohanarama

We don’t know what the name means but we do know that Ohanarama is a great new, safe, online destination where families can connect, learn & play together. Parents are given complete control over who is invited into their own space, this is protective and wise but also serves to reinforce bonds with relatives who …

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Shutterfly All New Custom Path

We found that Shutterfly was very familiar to our testers and many told us it was their photo sharing and printing site of choice. When we asked them to evaluate the new Custom Path offering, which gives users the tools to create truly customized photo books, they were intrigued and excited. The anticipation was rewarded …

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Looney Tunes Click N Read Phonics

Utilizing the enduring appeal of Looney Tunes and enlisting their timeless characters to teach phonics and reading on the web is nothing short of a stroke of genius. Managing to deliver extremely sound educational lessons that really do teach children to read impressed our testers enormously. The site itself is easy to use and navigate. …

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MathBlaster.com

MathBlaster.com

The MathBlaster website is awash with eye candy. Gorgeously detailed graphics in full vibrant colors invite the player in and let them feel as if they were actually moving through a high tech space station armed with a blaster shooting targets along the way. What is really going on of course is the reinforcement of …

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Jumpstart.com

Jumpstart.com

A marvelous educational and entertaining web based experience for children, Jumpstart impressed our testers yet again with it ability to attract, engage and delight children in a fully immersive environment. The educational component is perfectly aligned with the curriculum your child is learning in school so that this becomes both reinforcing and further exploring topics …

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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.

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* 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 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

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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