The National Parenting Center

DaysAgo

DaysAgo

We all have mysterious items in our refrigerator that are wrapped in tin foil or Tupperware that either loses its way or gets shoved to the back of the shelf and becomes a breeding ground for new life forms. This ingeniously designed day counter lets you know with a glance how long ago it was […]

Make a Sound and Move Around

Make a Sound and Move Around

This is a wonderful music CD that parents and children alike really enjoyed listening to. The songs are fun and upbeat, well-written and memorable. Kids quickly memorized the melodies and the rhythms and were jumping and moving with the boundless energy that only children this age can. A particular favorite is the opening track “The

bambinoLUK

bambinoLUK

A wonderful addition to any preschool curriculum, this high quality, easy to use “game” system really impressed our testers. Using a fun approach to logic and deductive reasoning, instead of traditional teaching methods, bambinoLUK sets out to develop children’s intellect. Children testers really responded to and retained the lessons they were taught. The construction of

miniLUK

miniLUK

Certainly one of the most unique educational systems we have ever seen miniLUK really impressed our testers with its novel approach to getting children to think. At the heart of the system is a controller with 12 tiles as well as a series of workbooks. Children using the miniLUK system are effectively playing and learning

Childrens Book

Childrens Book

This soft cover book, made especially for the very youngest “reader,” delighted our testers. Very easy to handle and extremely lightweight children loved looking at the faces that looked right back at them. Printed with bright beautiful colors this book really grabs hold of your child’s attention and the subject matter is something that all

Piano Made Easy

Piano Made Easy

If your school aged child has come to you and expressed a genuine interest in learning how to play the piano, Piano Made Easy is a great place to start. The package includes a 49 key piano with AC adaptor. There is a CD-ROM game that offers instruction as well as some fun games. Parents

The Total Transformation Program

The Total Transformation Program

It’s not easy for parents to reach the point where they recognize that they need help in getting through to their teenagers. There is pain in realizing that the level of communication has reached a point where you simply cannot effectively talk to your own kids. If this is the situation you find yourself in

American Trivia: Junior Edition

American Trivia: Junior Edition

Whether you play this on the board or just take the cards along as a great travel game for long drives, this knowledge testing/building game is a great way to teach essential facts about the United States. The questions are varied and range from basic to quite challenging. This is perfect for classrooms and home

3D5

3D5

Many of our parent testers laid eyes on 3D5 and recalled playing 3D tic-tac-toe years earlier but when they sat down with their kids to form rows of five marbles in a row they quickly learned that the rules had changed. The challenge of being the first to place your color marbles in consecutive order

AOL Writing Wizard

AOL has really jumped into the educational realm with both feet and the results are impressive. Writing Wizard provides students with personalized, online writing feedback on organization, grammar and spelling. Using something called E-RATER technology, the Writing Wizard lets students submit their essays and other written work, and receive individualized analysis and critiques electronically. (Note

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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