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Dandelion ReUsable Feeding Set

Dandelion ReUsable Feeding Set

If you categorize yourself as “green” or someone concerned about the environment AND you are looking for a wonderful feeding set for your baby then look no further. This Dandelion will end your search. Made from corn (perhaps the reason everything is yellow), each piece is BPA free. Apart from the eco-friendliness of the set, […]

Organic Classic Shape Sorter

A baby’s developmental toy that you can feel good about. That was the perspective of our parent testers as they played with and watched their babies interact with the soft and fun Organic Soft Shape Sorter. There are all the required tactile and sound experiences here but Dandelion went a step further. Produced with organic

Cozi.com

Cozi.com

Cozi.com drew rave reviews from our testers who loved discovering a website that really got what it means to be a busy parent these days. At the site you can create and personalize your family’s calendar, shopping lists, scan in your child’s artwork for display, find money saving coupons and much, much more. A feature

Flapdoodle

Flapdoodle

FlapDoodle is a great Family Game Night, especially if your family is into a night of some silly fun. Scrabble it ain’t! You see all the cards have something “interesting” and “fun” to do – like lie down…..and pretend to be a sleeping dog…who is snoring! (until your next turn). It’s harder to do with

Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup

Parents watched transfixed as their young children sat and played for hours with this wonderful educational electronic offering from VTech. Alphabet Soup is marvelous toy that teaches letters and colors to preschoolers. There are loads of fun verbal interactions that engage and encourage children to accomplish and master the skills. Adorably designed and packaged just

Skippy the Smart Pup

Skippy the Smart Pup

The full review for this Seal of Approval award winning product has not yet been posted. Please check back soon.

Kidzoom Plus

Kidzoom Plus

For those who might look at the colorful plastic casing and dismiss the Kidzoom Plus as a toy camera, look again! Our testers could not rave enough not just about how appealing the camera is to their children to about the amazing quality of the pictures and video it took. They could not get over

Bugsby Reading System

Bugsby Reading System

A hit with our testers for it’s wide age appeal. The Bugsby Reading System is manageable for very young, new readers while not being too simple for older, more experienced readers. This is so because the system allows the user to either read the story by pressing the pen to the page to have the

Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read - Kindergarten-2nd Grade

It feels as if Hooked on Phonics has been around forever and when our testers discovered it for the first time in our testing centers they were a little surprised. What they found was a superb set of top-notch learning tools with incredible educational value for their children. The DVD’s are a real hit, produced

DreamBox Learning K-2 Math

DreamBox Learning K-2 Math

One of the most enthusiastically reviewed subscription web sites we have ever had in our testing centers, DreamBox elicited raves about virtually every aspect of this site. The instruction of math concepts takes on a new level of fun and adventure for kids as they solve puzzles all in the quest for tokens which 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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