The National Parenting Center

Sesame Street Abby Cadabby Building Set Assortment

K’Nex, which makes some pretty sophisticated building sets has skewed a portion of their line to very young builders with their Sesame Street line of toys. Both Abby Cadabby and Super Grover

Sesame Street Super Grover & Abby Cadabby Building Set Assortments

K’Nex, which makes some pretty sophisticated building sets has skewed a portion of their line to very young builders with their Sesame Street line of toys. Both Abby Cadabby and Super Grover hold such a smile inducing appeal to fans of the series that they couldn’t wait to get their hands on the sets especially

Fun & Phonics ABC Hive

Fun & Phonics ABC Hive

Thinkativity has put a whole hive-load of fun into learning the letters of the alphabet. When you place a bee in the slot on the hive you hear, in a clear sounding voice (that is quite frankly a little startling for a toy this size and price), either a song or a variety of words

Star Pilot

Star Pilot

There is so much amazing stuff packed inside this educational science kit that parents couldn’t contain themselves when expressing their delight. Firstly, don’t let the subpar packaging design fool you, there is a whole world of exploration hidden inside. From the thoroughly brilliant instructions and their clever illustrations to the constellation finder, everything included here

Understanding Sam and Asperger Syndrome

Asperger’s Syndrome is so under-reported and so misunderstood that our testers welcomed this book with open arms, even those who had never heard of the syndrome. This beautifully written and illustrated book, perfect for sharing with children to improve their understanding of Asperger’s. Children instantly connected with Sam, the title character. We get to see

Shutterfly Share Sites

The overwhelmingly positive response to Shutterfly’s Share Sites service made it a runaway winner of our Seal of Approval. Testers were besides themselves when they discovered what an amazing tool was waiting for them. The ability to upload, organize, share, print, ship and create albums of their most precious photos blew them away. The design

Disney Wheel of Fortune

The iconic Wheel of Fortune has been recreated for play right in your own home, using the names, characters and other elements of your favorite Disney movies. Vanna White is not included but that didn’t stop our testers from begging to be the letter turners. The basic rules of Wheel are here but now as

Cool Convertible

Cool Convertible

When you think of building a “cool” model car kit, Lego is not a company that comes to mind. Well, according to our testers, you should think again. This building set and the optional building models (the alternatives are a semi-truck and a construction vehicle!) they create, exude cool evidenced by our testers who gave

Mobile Command Center

Mobile Command Center

Ready to tackle one of the most exciting and challenging Lego building sets ever? Our “professional” Lego-ists were in heaven with this exceptionally detailed set. Just looking at the truck’s building instructions made others weak in the knees. The reason the truck is so labor intensive is all the super high-tech spy stuff packed inside.

Hypersonic Spacecraft

Hypersonic Spacecraft

The Mission to Mars line has really connected with Lego fans and this set is another great addition to the line. Testers were thrilled when they discovered that the kit not only could be built in various hi-tech configurations but this one was capable of splitting into three separate vehicles simultaneously. Not for the Lego

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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