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All-Star Potty Seat

All-Star Potty Seat

Over the years we have seen many attempts to make potty time more appealing to those who are not quite up to speed with the whole independent waste disposal thing. There have been bribes, rewards and various other appeals for regular use. The All-Star Potty seat, which comes in a variety of sport styles, really […]

Safe View Mirror

Safe View Mirror

Sometimes it is the small, simple items that garner the most glowing praise from our testers and the Safe View Mirror is one such example. When your children are traveling in the back seat of your car (and old enough to sit facing front) it is very hard to keep an eye on both them

Bright Starts Babys Play Place

The Bright Starts Baby Play Place is everything you would ever want in a babies activity play mat. It is fun, entertaining, bright, colorful and the selection of toys and activities are superb. Quite a few babies were entranced by the musical bug which was very responsive to their touch. Parents told us how their

Mommys Baby

Mommys Baby

At first glance our testers were quite taken with Mommy’s Baby which they described as being one of the cutest baby dolls they had ever seen. Loaded with accessories she is ready to be dressed and undressed over and over, which is exactly what our younger testers did. She makes sounds and responds to your

Carpet Bocce

Carpet Bocce

Bocce has often been lumped together with shuffleboard, perceived as a game for an older generation. Carpet Bocce takes those perceptions and tosses them out the window. All of the rules of the classic lawn bowling game are here but the game is played inside, on your hands and knees. Imagine grandpa doing that! The

Pet Pals

Pet Pals

Since the Leapster system is so appealing it makes sense that a video game featuring adorable pets would be met with universally positive reactions. This may not be the most educational of the titles currently available for the Leapster, but who says you can’t kick back every so often? Once you start the game your

Ratatouille

Ratatouille

From Top Chef to Ratatouille, there is no shortage of food and gourmet cuisine in movies and on TV. Now Remy, the famous Rat Chef of Paris makes the move to the Leapster gaming system and the results are magnifique. Players will help Remy collect food ingredients which conveniently have letters needed to spell words,

Cars - Super Charged

Filling out the line of software to bring the wonderful, award-winning Leapster to life, is an exciting and interactive game featuring the endearing characters from the Disney/Pixar hit movie Cars. The colorful Leapster screen comes to life with the familiar characters from the movie. There is goal oriented play here that will be familiar to

Bella Sara

Bella Sara

Trading cards have traditionally not been geared towards girls over the years, but then along comes Bella Sara to prove that little girls can be just as passionate about collecting as the boys. For children who have always dreamed about owning a horse the Bella Sara collection of horse trading cards and its accompanying website

Hylands Sniffles n Sneezes 4 Kids

Like the elusive Fountain of Youth, the search for the cure to the common cold always seems to be just beyond our reach. Has Hyland found the key to eliminating our most annoying malady? It depends on your perspective. For our testers who gave this homeopathic tablets to their sniffly children it was quite 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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