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Venture Party

Venture Party

Venture Party is a unique fantasy card game that features beautiful graphics and illustrations for players 13 and up. Game play requires anywhere from 3 to 7 players who must concentrate on “hand management” to emerge victorious. We found that teens were very familiar and comfortable with the fantasy theme and setting and therefore picked […]

Potty Train with Pinky Bear

Potty Train with Pinky Bear

Potty Train With Pinky Bear was seen by testers as an innovative tool for potty training and unlike anything they had seen before. The brightly colored, informative book and the adorable cuddly bear are a great tandem to help potty training parents. The book serves as an encouragement tool to help your child begin to

Super Spinner

Super Spinner

If you are looking for an addition for your swing set or something to hang from that perfect tree branch, you are in luck. So are your kids!! The Super Spinner is made of high-quality, thick, durable plastic that has been molded into a comfortable seat. The seat is curved inward which is great for

Junior Passback Football

Junior Passback Football

What a cool, brilliant and totally novel idea! This Passback Football is perfect for the child that loves to throw a ball around but doesn’t always have someone to play with. Made of strong materials, it proved itself to be extremely durable. At first you will be surprised at how quick and accurately the ball

Dont Rock The Boat

Dont Rock The Boat

After two months of family play it was obvious that Don’t Rock the Boat has the potential to become one of your families go to games for fun, fast, and engaging play that the whole family will enjoy. The bright, colorful packaging is appealing and enticing. Once opened, you will be playing the game within

KID O Myland Car

KID O Myland Car

Incorporating critical thinking skills at an early age is not new, but emphasizing concepts like science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) is becoming more of a standardized focus for both teachers and parents. The KID O Myland Car embraces the STEM revolution to perfection. The simple yet elegant packaging is the first thing that

Glow-In-The-Dark Jumbo Magnatab

This is not the first version of the Magnatab concept we have seen, but it is the first with this unique Glow-In-The-Dark design. It entertained our child testers so much that they actually forgot about their other screen options for a time. This Magnatab is very much a “free-style” experience; your children can draw whatever

Calm in Your Palm

Calm in Your Palm

Children experience a wide range of emotions daily, many of which they are unable to identify at a young age. Happiness, joy, and silliness are easily recognizable and understood by children, but anxiousness, sadness, and loneliness are harder for children to comprehend and cope with. This is where Calm in Your Palm comes in by

Moluk Pluï Rain Cloud

The Moluk Pluï Rain Cloud is a unique, innovative and educational toy that really raises the bar for other educational toys. Not only does this toy inspire learning, it does so in a simple, no frills manner. If your child has ever expressed wonder during a rainstorm about how and why it rains, then here’s

Codenames: Marvel

The Marvel version of Codenames is a new, creative, fun, and challenging team game. The basic rules of the superb Codenames brand are utilized but with the Marvel twist. If you are a casual fan, have only seen a handful of Marvel movies, and never read a Marvel comic book, this could prove to be

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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