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One Minute Reader Series

One Minute Reader Series

This thoroughly unique approach to teaching reading really impressed our testers. The One Minute Reader program focuses on your child’s reading fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. What that means is that reading becomes as simple and natural as speaking. When that happens reading becomes more enjoyable because it is not filled with hesitation and pauses to […]

Music Together - Family Favorites

This wonderful CD of family sing-along songs was met with warm reactions by our testers young and old. The music has a folksy appeal to it. Testers told us that they enjoyed the positive, upbeat and happy energy of the tunes as well as being impressed with the enclosed booklet that gives parents further suggestions

Ready to Rock Kids

Ready to Rock Kids

Ready To Rock Kids provides catchy music with strong lyrics that attempt to teach good social skills and values. The very first track, “Bye, Bye Bully”, really impressed our testers with its upbeat rhythm and empowering lyrics. Other favorites included “Let ‘Em Out” (“‘Em” being your emotions) and “Sharing Friends”, a song about playing with

Big Yellow School Bus

Big Yellow School Bus

From the moment we unfolded this brightly colored play toy it became a testing center favorite. Kids were drawn to it like moths to a flame, eager to play out scenarios where they were boarding the bus and heading off to school. The unfolding action which we are all familiar with really works well here

Big Red Fire Engine

Big Red Fire Engine

From the moment we unfolded this brightly colored play toy it became a testing center favorite. Kids were drawn to it like moths to a flame, eager to play out scenarios where they were heroic firemen rushing to the scene of a fire. The unfolding action which we are all familiar with really works well

Tuesday Mushroom King

This personalized storybook, which you help create by uploading your child’s picture to the Flattenme.com website, is an exceptionally beautiful book with a creative and imaginative use of backgrounds and photography. The very sweet story is absolutely enchanting. When you add in the fact that your child is the star, well, you can imagine that

Reading to Learn Program

Reading to Learn Program

As parents we all know that there is no standard when it comes to the education of our children. Every child learns differently and responds to lessons uniquely. The Reading To Learn program was met with fascination and then enthusiasm by our parent testers who watched as their reluctant readers gravitated to this comic book

Youve Been Sentenced

Youve Been Sentenced

A completely fun and funny game, our testers had a blast forming sentences, or what they believed were sentences. The jury (other players), are the ultimate arbiters here and that’s where much of the fun and laughter comes in. Game play is quite fast which was a big plus with our game playing testers. There

MLB Trade Up

MLB Trade Up

Your budding baseball fan will absolutely love playing with this very unique DVD based game. There are different levels of game play and as the first round of strategic maneuvering unfolds, early on you may think you have out-managed your opponent. Not so fast. Along comes the random DVD portion of the game and the

The Great Word Race

The Great Word Race

A superbly entertaining and educational game, The Great Word Race really impressed our testers with its great design and terrific play value. Featuring a colorful game board with pieces that are sized just right for easy handling, some testers described it as a cross between Candyland and Scrabble. Taking the best of both and finding

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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