The National Parenting Center

Magic Window Talking Farm

This toy is such features such a wealth of bright, colorful, touchable and interactive items on Chicco’s Magic Window Talking Farm that young children couldn’t wait to start playing. The sounds and responses they received in response to their touch consistently elicited smiles and giggles. Parents liked the bilingual feature that allows the experience to […]

Alphie

Alphie

Alphie is designed to be a traveling personal robot friend who also manages to be a learning tool. Using cards that slip into the front of Alphie, children are encouraged and rewarded when they play with and press the light up buttons. The unit comes with quite a few learning cards covering subjects such as

My Little Pony RC Rainbow Dashs Plane Vehicle

Seeing My Little Pony brought back so many memories for so many mommies. Nostalgia aside kids couldn’t wait to begin playing with this new remote controlled toy. The plane is a bright pink that little girls and moms thought was a perfect complement to the blue pony. As a toy the remote was easy to

FurReal Friends GoGo My Walkin Pup

The ownership role that kids took when given the responsibility of having a “pet”, was an eye opening experience for many parents. They had never seen their children express such care and nurturing. They would hug and brush this adorable battery operated dog in a way that several Moms and Dads had never seen before.

Play-Doh Mega Fun Factory

For hours and hours of entertainment, not to mention the heavenly smell of Play-Doh, this Mega Fun Factory really lives up to its name. The factory premise, using an assembly line look, is well executed and struck our testers as quite unique. Parents appreciated the design which includes storage for the Play-Doh containers. The inclusion

Nerf Curve Pitch Baseball Set

If you have a young baseball player at home, one who is starting to explore pitching, you will surely hear warnings about letting them throw curveballs too early or too soon. The strain on the arm that it takes to throw a curveball effectively has ruined many a young career. This Nerf set will satisfy

Auto-Close Safety Gate

Auto-Close Safety Gate

Sometimes its the little things that are often overlooked but are what make one product stand out. Such was the case with the auto-close gate. The slats are vertical with no footholds at all, meaning adventuresome babies or toddlers cannot easily climb over them, Other aspects of the gate that were met with enthusiasm by

Anybook Reader

Anybook Reader

Boys and girls we have a winner. The Anybook Reader blew away our testers as an amazing device that lets parents be present with their children even when they are pulled away. By selecting any book, and we mean ANY book, the parent or grandparent, aunt, uncle (you get the idea) reads and records his

HEXBUG Bridge Battle Habitat Set

HEXBUG Bridge Battle Habitat Set

We have seen HEXBUGS numerous times in our testing centers and testers have often been quite taken with these little nano bots. Now Innovation First has begun thinking about creating places for these HEXBUGS to live and do their thing in a more contained environment, one which promotes battles. OK so maybe it isn’t a

Hello Kitty Light Board

Hello Kitty Light Board

You have seen these light boards at restaurants touting the day’s specials for years, their fluorescent writing almost jumping off the board. Now Sakar has teamed it with the eternally popular Hello Kitty brand to give young girls a place to post important notices. Young testers loved notifying family members of their latest urgent posts;

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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