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Your Baby Can Read!

Your Baby Can Read!

Much has been read and written about this series of early childhood educational videos and tools. We were curious to see how the deluxe set would fare in our testing facilities. Reports and reviews were quite positive as parents told us that their children really liked watching the DVD’s, mimicking the motions and saying the […]

Your Child Can Read!

Your Child Can Read!

Many parents are intimidated by the responsibility placed on them to teach their children to read these days at earlier and earlier ages. Those parents will find this series to be like finding a good friend in a time of need. Children in our testing facilities were immediately engaged, repeating the words they were asked

Your Baby Can Speak! Spanish or French

If you are looking for methods to introduce your child to another language in the hopes of guiding them towards being at least slightly bilingual, this should be on your short list of programs to consider. Your Baby Can is well crafted and certainly makes the process of learning a second language fun, if your

Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow

The beautiful, inviting and enchanting design of this website entranced young testers and their Moms. Being able to create your very own fairy and give her a name sealed the deal right off the bat for most young girls. There are loads of places to navigate and explore with your fairy. Games and activities seem

Disneys Toontown Online

Disneys Toontown Online

A wonderfully gender-neutral website children really took to the Toontown experience and eagerly navigated with ease through the seemingly endless paths, games and experiences. Interacting with familiar Disney characters made this exceptionally appealing as did the superb graphics and 3D rendering. There is a storyline where players try to outwit the Cogs, you do this

The Shuttle Imagination

The Shuttle Imagination

We all remember one of the best toys from childhood being the empty refrigerator box. Mom and Dad got their new toy and you got yours. Something about having a place of your own, where you could act out imaginative play and the sky was the limit, made it the perfect transformative escape. The Shuttle

Lovely Lisa & Friends

Lovely Lisa & Friends

A video game for the Nintendo DS that is strictly for girls. No, really! And it isn’t all make-up and hairdos, although they are there. We would be remiss if we didn’t mention the tester favorite the nail polishing. But it isn’t all glamor and primping. Testers loved the fact that there was a career

Disney Digital Books

Disney Digital Books

This remarkable website, featuring over 600 Disney stories, wowed our testers. One mother described it as a Kindle for Kids. Giving children access to this treasure trove of so many beloved childhood tales, it introduces and then reinforces a love of reading while simultaneously enhancing the level of reading comprehension. Children can read independently (when

Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine

In Parent & Child you will find a wealth of perfectly targeted material for parents of children of all ages. The are advice articles about everything from grades to in-laws to germs, ideas for crafts to do with your kids, recipes that are quick and easy, ideas for starting new traditions and much more. Testers

Complete Air Convertible Car Seat

Complete Air Convertible Car Seat

When choosing car seats for our most precious passengers parents know that it doesn’t matter if the fabric design matches the car interior or your handbag, what matters most is the ability of the seat to protect your child in the event of a crash. Dorel has gone the extra mile in designing a seat

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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