The National Parenting Centers Seal of Approval program is an independent testing procedure conducted to judge a variety of products introduced and marketed to the parentchild consumer market.The testing involves a multistep process conducted over an eight week period. Staffed by volunteers, the testing facility of The National Parenting Center gives parents, children, and educators the opportunity to examine a variety of submitted products. The testers are encouraged to play with, build, read about, and judge by the reactions of the children, each products quality.Participants fill out questionnaires for each product they test. Evaluated are each products level of desirability, sturdiness, interactive stimulation and other ingredients essential in the makeup of a quality product. Test results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received from the parenttesters.The Seal of Approval program is designed to continue the efforts of The National Parenting Center, which was chartered in 1989 to help create better informed parents as they tackle the challenges of parenting in the new millennium.

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