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San Diego Bebe

San Diego Bebe

There are two significant issues that nursing mothers repeatedly face and San Diego Bebe has solutions for both. Attaining a comfortable nursing position for both baby and mother and privacy. The pillow gives you ample room to lay the baby down and even provides a rim at the back to keep baby from rolling off. […]

AboutOne.com

AboutOne.com

AboutOne is an online organizational tool for parents that allows them to keep all of their important information together, safe and accessible no matter where you are. Parents believed that despite the initial work of doing all the inputting, the benefit of reducing all the various papers and files would prove to be very valuable.

zCush Baby Nap Mat

Moms and babies were equally enthusiastic about the zCush. Here is a very soft sleeping, bundling bag for baby that can be used throughout the day. It makes a terrific cushy pillow for baby to lie on while nursing and it is equally comfortable for Mom. The design is lightweight and flexible as well so

Bumbo Crawl Ball

Bumbo Crawl Ball

Baby toys that bring delightful giggles, smiles and joy are the stuff of great parent reviews and the Bumbo Crawl Ball was no exception during this recent testing period. Uniquely colored using the gender neutral palette, the Crawl Ball attracts babies who loved reaching out to touch or grab it. What they get is not

HearBuilder Sequencing - Home Edition

HearBuilder Sequencing – Home Edition

Critical thinking and reading comprehension are essential parts of the early learning process. Mastery of it gives children a clear advantage in so many other disciplines. Here you will find a nice assortment of sequencing lessons and challenges. The object in most is to place cards in the correct sequential order. 80% accuracy is what

Jeepers Peepers

Jeepers Peepers

This wonderfully unique and delightful game enchanted testers, especially the younger ones who couldn’t wait to get their hands on the multicolored glasses. The game is completely fun but that doesn’t keep it from being quite educational at the same time. Children will be learning skills that help them question and enhance their problem solving

Math Detective Beginning

Math Detective Beginning

The review of this book needs to begin and end with an emphasis on the fact that this is NOT your ordinary math workbook. A wonderful assortment of problems and scenarios demonstrate how math is all around us and is in fact an integral part of everyday activities. Comprehension is key here, children cannot simply

Reading Detective Al

Reading Detective Al

If you are looking for a tool to enhance your child’s reading comprehension take a long hard look at this terrific offering from The Critical Thinking Company. Using a higher-order thinking technique it develops and advances comprehension in ways that just astounded our parent testers. What makes it all work is the quality of the

Yoomi for Duo

Yoomi for Duo

We have all marveled at the iPad, it truly qualifies as a technological game changer. Discovery Bay has designed a first of its kind mechanical device that sits on top of your iPad and using light signals activates the mechanism. The Duo unit works with apps that are being developed and will be released. The

Lets Choose

Lets Choose

A great, new game that helps children learn about the natural consequences of their actions, Let’s Choose impressed our testers with its unique concept. The directions took just a few minutes to read and process. It is a game that kids enjoyed but parents especially loved that they could use it as a method to

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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