Introducing! DR TOY’S BEST GREEN CHILDREN’S TOYS & PRODUCTS  AWARD 2011 ©

Each year we more fully understand how the planet we live on continues to be in trouble as we learn more about the issues every day. What can we do? How can we change? We are learning how to do more to respond every day. How can we change and improve work, home and school? What else can we do?

You can make small changes each day to reduce your carbon footprint, encourage your family and co-workers by trying any of these tips, and most of all learn why changes are beneficial now and for our future. 

Shuttle Imagination Craft Model chosen as "Best for Wild Imaginations" by Scholastic Instructor magazine

Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for nearly 90 years Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.

Parenting calls upon the expertise of moms across the country to reality-test products and services to find those that truly make their lives easier. After Parenting’s team of editors and experts evaluates each item for overall safety, quality, effectiveness, and design, products are sent to mom-testers for evaluation with their own families, in their own homes. Only those that meet with the moms’ approval are granted the Mom-Tested! emblem, and featured in the pages of Parenting magazine.

Chosen as "Best for a Rainy Day" by Scholastic Instructor Magazine.

Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of helping children around the world to read and learn. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for nearly 90 years Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.

In addition to the evaluation of children’s products, the Tillywig program also awards a small number of retail stores each year for their ongoing contributions to promoting high quality, innovative new products.

Product awards are given on the basis of group play tests, the primary purpose of which is evaluating the entertainment and/or educational value of the products submitted.

Retailer awards are given on the basis of information procured through online research as well as interviews with manufacturers, retailers, and consumers

The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval program is an independent testing procedure conducted to judge a variety of products introduced and marketed to the parent/child consumer market.

The testing involves a multi-step 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 product's quality.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product they test. Evaluated are each product's level of desirability, sturdiness, interactive stimulation and other ingredients essential in the make-up of a quality product. Test results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received from the parent/testers.

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.