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DC Super Friends The Joker Fun House

Candyland for the comic book set was how one tester referred to this new game from Wonder Forge. Players move their Superheroes along the colorful board but instead of illustrations of ice cream and candy, there are superheroes and their various superhero friends all trying to defeat the Joker. The unique game twist here is […]

Lullaby Earth Crib Mattress

New parents were taken with this wonderful, earth-friendly crib mattress for a variety of reasons. The organic materials were of course a big selling point. Additionally, the design which features a smooth surface with no seams was seen as a practical design element. With no areas for liquids to pool the chance of discoloration or

Lightweight Crib Mattress

Chances are when you go crib mattress shopping the weight of the mattress is not among the critical criteria on your list. However, as our testers were quick to point out, it is not to be overlooked. Why? Changing sheets. Cribs are not the most conducive to easy sheet changing, you’ll learn this soon enough.

Brontosaurus Rocker

Brontosaurus Rocker

A dinosaur and a ride-on toy, hmmm nothing appealing to kids there, huh? The folks at Teamson, who specialize in crafting wooden furniture and furnishings for the home, have created an adorable rocker that instantly connected with our young testers. The colors are soothing and easily fit in just about any room. The face of

Karibu Folding Bath

Karibu Folding Bath

Baby baths are one of those items that many parents have a love/hate relationship with. It is a helpful tool making bathing infants and babies much easier but traditional molded baths take up a pretty significant amount of space when not in use. Getty Products has had their ear to the ground, heard the grumblings

The Presidential

The Presidential

Unless you live in a very dark cave there is no way to escape the onrushing cataclysm that is the quadrennial presidential election. No matter which side you favor this game will surely serve to ramp up the interest and intrigue playing out on our newspapers and televisions from now until November. Ingeniously designed The

KATATU

KATATU

Katatu is a game that might miss your radar either because of the unusual name or the box art which doesn’t do justice to the superb the game inside. Combining principals of checkers and tic tac toe, Katatu should be on your board game shopping list as it engages players of all ages, requiring them

Ba Baby Bottle Holder

Ba Baby Bottle Holder

Have you ever wished that your infant could hold their own bottle when sitting in the car seat or riding in the stroller? The people at Original Baby did and created a unique holder for little fingers. This is a manipulative tool that holds the bottle and features soft rubber with lots of little notches

LockerLookz Accessories

A slam-dunk, grand-slam, winner. For tweens and early teens this was a rather surprising runaway hit. We say surprising because we have never seen anything even close to it, which only means that lots of people missed an amazing opportunity. Girls can now “move into” their home away from home on the first day of

The Most Complete Student Success System

If you have a High School student in your home and you are looking to help, enhance or expand their skills when it comes to achieving in school, this might be your one stop shop. Parents certainly felt this was one of the most well thought out, well laid out and well researched programs they

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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