Parent Tested Parent Approved announces latest recipients of the PTPA Seal of Approval for product excellence and innovation

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Where has summer gone? We blinked, and suddenly it’s almost time to swap swimsuits for sweaters. But before we dive headfirst into pumpkin spice everything and prepare for the sprint to the holiday season, it’s time to unveil our latest winners of the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval.

At Parent Tested Parent Approved, we’re always on the hunt for products that deliver on their promises. Quality, dependability, functionality and everything else that matters to consumers. Well, we’ve been busy putting a bunch of new products through the paces with our parent testers, and we’re ready to announce the next group of award-winning gems.

Looking for the perfect back-to-school product? Or maybe get a little early holiday shopping done? These newly approved products are perfect for your gift lists.

Oh, and for any brands feeling a bit of FOMO – don’t sweat it! We’re already gearing up for our next big announcement in November. Just in time for the holiday rush, right? Get your product in early– space is limited!

Remember, these aren’t just random products – they’re tried, tested and trusted by real families. You don’t just buy our award and slap it on your product. It’s not decided by a vote.

We’re a little more transparent than that. Our award is earned, not given.

Let’s get to it. Here are the latest winners of the Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval.
Drum roll, please….

Company: Acorn Couch
Winning Product: Acorn Couch
The Acorn Couch includes one large base consisting of two large cushions measuring 66″ x 33″ x 5″ and one trapezoid shaped pillow measuring 24″ x 14″ x 13″. Both the base as the pillow are made out of Certipur foam and covered with a waterproof liner and a soft chenille cover.

Company: Aura
Winning Product: Aura Parental Controls
Aura is breaking down barriers between parents and kids to have conversations around healthy online behaviors. Aura’s Parental Controls can identify threats in real-time, and offer visibility into the trends, patterns, and changes in behavior in their kids’ digital lives, so parents can act if there’s something they think is worth a chat. Aura Parental Controls helps parents keep kids safe online at every age. With Aura Parental Controls, parents can decide what their kids view online and parents can easily set and enforce screen time limits, and get a full picture of their kids’ online activities.

Company: Blake eLearning
Winning Product: Reading Eggs
Reading Eggs is the multi-award winning reading program for children ages 2–13 that makes learning to read fun and easy. Based on a proven, science-backed curriculum, it targets early literacy skills from phonics and vocabulary to grammar and reading comprehension. Children love the fun learning games and exciting rewards, while parents love the placement tests, detailed progress reports and fast results.
The learn-to-read program supports each child’s learning journey by providing hundreds of self-paced lessons that allow children to progress at their own rate. Plus, with a generous online library with over 4,000 e-books, there’s something to suit everyone’s interests.

9 out of 10 of parents see an improvement in just weeks!

Used by over 20 million children around the world, Reading Eggs is proven to boost reading skills in just 15 minutes a day!

Plus, it’s kid-SAFE, ad-free and COPPA certified, so parents can rest assured knowing their child is safe online.

Company: Geddy’s Mom
Winning Product: Shut Your Face Self-Closing Outlet Cover
Can’t stand outlet covers? We hear ya!

You’re about to experience outlet safety like never before with the mother of all outlet covers. Shut Your Face is the first self-closing outlet cover that brings you comfort, simplicity, reliability and most importantly, research-based safety for your children. Here’s why:

-Our dual action release keeps kids out but is comfortable for adults. Simply squeeze and rotate to expose our outlet.
-Our zero-effort spring-back closure means once you pull that plug out, the safety arm automatically springs back to its covered position.
-You’re getting complete seating of your charger! Unlike other covers, there’s nothing here between the outlet and your plug – which means your plugs will seat fully and stay in place!
-Our outlet covers allows for independent outlet access, which means when you use one outlet, the other one remains in its safety position.

We designed Shut Your Face to fit your widest plugs on our top vertical panel, and your tallest plugs on our lower horizontal panel.

Company: Ground Up International
Winning Product: Ground Up Kids Sneakers
Ground Up International retains an integrated portfolio of licensed and owned brand footwear. They provide customers the freedom to express themselves through their favorite fandoms. Ground Up International retains an integrated portfolio of licensed and owned brand footwear. Ground Up International’s unique capability to design and translate fashion trends and items for all market accounts and price points allows us to develop for a wide variety of consumers. The company has aligned itself with many premier licensing partners in each segment of business. The brand promises to include fashion, comfort, and fun in your daily life.

Company: Haakaa
Winning Product: Ladybug Silicone Breast Milk Collector
The Haakaa Ladybug Silicone Breast Milk Collector is the perfect breast pad alternative for mums who want to save every drop of leakage and letdown instead of soaking it up.

The one-piece design attaches to your breast with suction and sits securely and discreetly in your bra. This suction is light and gentle to hold the product in place. It won’t draw out additional milk, so it’s ideal for mums who leak breast milk and want to save it without increasing their supply.

You can wear the Ladybug on the other side in your nursing bra while you’re breastfeeding to catch your letdown or wear one on each breast inside your bra as you carry on with your day. It is completely portable and has small feet on the bottom to stand upright on any flat surface, preventing spills after use.

Once you have finished collecting your letdown, open the plug on the top and safely pour out your milk into a container or bottle.

Company: Home Chef
Winning Product: Family Menu
Home Chef’s Family Menu is a one-of-a-kind meal kit service designed specifically for families and larger households. Made for busy families, Home Chef’s Family Menu makes getting a fresh-made meal on the table stress-free and straight-forward, no matter how much time and effort you want to spend in the kitchen.

The easy-to-make Family Menu recipes were developed for the tastebuds of kids and adults alike, from burger and taco kits to one-pot pastas and globally-inspired bowls. Home Chef’s Family Menu features inspiring and approachable flavors that picky eaters will get excited about and adventurous eaters won’t get bored of. Home Chef’s Family Meals also prioritize value without sacrificing fresh, high-quality ingredients. The more a Family Menu customer orders, the more they save.

Company: Malwarebytes
Winning Product: Malwarebytes Plus (Premium Security + Privacy VPN)
Malwarebytes – Protecting your family’s online digital life

Malwarebytes Plus provides effective and easy security and online safety for all your devices.

The Malwarebytes Plus subscription includes:

Malwarebytes Premium
Smarter than your average antivirus, Malwarebytes Premium finds threats on 40% of devices that already have another antivirus installed and crushes them.

Malwarebytes Premium provides Real-Time Protection against a variety of existing and emerging threats including viruses, phishing, ransomware, zero-day exploits and more.

Malwarebytes Privacy VPN
A next-gen VPN to protect your online privacy with speeds faster than traditional VPNs.

Malwarebytes Privacy helps you keep your privacy yours. Shop, read, browse, stream, and live your online life confidently with our next-gen VPN.

Malwarebytes Browser Guard – Free for everyone
A free browser extension for a faster, safer, and more private browsing experience.

Malwarebytes Browser Guard crushes ads and third-party trackers while blocking malicious websites, online scams and potentially unwanted programs at speeds up to 4x faster.

Company: Naturepedic
Winning Product: Naturepedic Organic Breathable Baby Crib Mattress (2-Stage – Lightweight)
The Naturepedic Breathable Organic 2-Stage Lightweight Crib Mattress is the only mattress of its kind that is breathable, waterproof and certified organic. This mattress features a firmer side for infants and a medium-firm side for growing toddlers. The design is strong yet lightweight, so it’s both easy for you to lift during late-night sheet changes and firm enough for your baby’s developing muscles and bones. Certified organic, Naturepedic mattresses are made without flame retardants, formaldehyde, polyurethane foam or other questionable chemicals.

Company: Procter & Gamble
Winning Product: Pampers Club App
The Pampers Club App allows parents to save money on diapers by scanning codes on their Pampers diapers bags. After scanning the code, you receive Pampers Cash which you can redeem to an offer, redeemable as a gift card.

Company: VTech Technologies Canada Ltd.
Winning Product: VTech® Sort & Discover Activity Wagon™
Have a wheel-y great time with this wagon that’s full of activities on the outside, and tons of space on the inside to fill with favorite toys, snacks and more! Start off with floor play, crawling around with curiosity as little ones flip, spin, slide and sort their way around each activity. One side includes a lion head, a colorful roller and hidden animal friends waiting to be discovered, plus activity keys that introduce colors, numbers and more; the other side has a bead maze, sliders and interlocking gears to twist and turn. Double up on shape sorting! The front and back sections include different slots to match up the included blocks. As they graduate to walking, store favorite items inside before heading out on a journey of discovery. When it’s time to pack up, the handle easily folds up for convenient storage.

Company: VTech Technologies Canada Ltd.
Winning Product: VTech® KidiZoom® Smartwatch DX4
Strike a pose! This smartwatch features two cameras, a high-resolution screen, a splash-proof metal body and a fashionable watchband that makes this full-function smartwatch the coolest tech around. Get creative with the dual cameras to personalize your clock face, photos and videos with the effects and filters. Find AR monsters in the real world, compose music using instruments and sound effects, and play exciting movement games to see your step count soar. Practice telling time with over 50 clock faces or shake the watch to hear the time out loud. Download additional games and more from the Learning Lodge.

Company: VTech Technologies Canada Ltd.
Winning Product: LeapFrog® LeapStart® Learning Success Bundle™
Explore exciting new ways to learn with the LeapStart® Learning Success Bundle™ interactive system. This system with a sleek, new design grows with your child and gets them excited about learning with interactive touch-and-talk pages. Activities that include games, puzzles and creative challenges enhance learning to help kids build math, reading, problem-solving skills and more. The Go! Go! Cory Carson® Cory Carson Superhero School™ book, based on the popular animated series, and an additional activity book are included. The expansive LeapStart® library of books (sold separately) covers a variety of preschool through first grade subjects for 2-7 year olds with more than 30 activities in every book. Many replayable activities have two levels with 50+ key skills per grade level, so kids can play and learn at the right level and move up when they’re ready. Included books are preloaded. The easy-to-hold stylus is comfortable for kids of all ages, promotes proper writing grip and neatly clicks into the cover for storage.

Company: VTech Technologies Canada Ltd.
Winning Product: VTech® RM5754HD 5” Smart Wi-Fi 1080p Video Monitor
The VTech RM5754HD Smart Wi-Fi Video Baby Monitor allows you to check in on your little one from virtually anywhere—at home or remotely on your smart device. The HD camera uses your home’s Wi-Fi connection to capture movements and sounds. Watch your child in real time on the parent unit, or on the MyVTech Baby app in high definition. When viewing on your iOS or Android device, experience crystal-clear, high-definition video. The two-way talk back feature allows you to comfort your baby from the parent unit or your smart phone.

The VTech RM5754HD Wi-Fi Remote Access Video Baby Monitor features a built-in night light, soothing sounds and lullabies that play right from the camera unit to help baby sleep tight. This fixed baby camera has a wide-angle viewing up to 110 degrees to watch over your little one from anywhere in the house or out in the yard. Even after dark, you’ll be able to see your baby clearly thanks to automatic infrared night vision. Plus, the built-in temperature sensor will let you know with an alert if the nursery is getting too hot or too cold so you can adjust the thermostat.

Company: VTech Technologies Canada Ltd.
Winning Product: VTech® BC8213 V-Hush Jr. Sleep Training Soother Speaker
Create ideal sleep patterns & environments with the VTech BC8213 V-Hush Junior Sleep Training Soother. Inspired by WeeSleep™ experts, the Hush Junior provides features that enable better, longer sleep for the whole family. Combines light, sounds, and tips to encourage healthy sleep habits using the colorful night light, glow-on-the-ceiling projector, and a Bluetooth Speaker. Craft sleep-inducing atmospheres with over 200 pre-programmed stories, classical music, lullabies and natural sounds, or stream from your favorite smartphone music service. Record and upload your own voice, songs, or stories using the subscription free app. Monitor and listen to your child via the free app on your smartphone.

And there they are! These brands have delivered on what they promise: creating products trusted by families.

A special thanks to our amazing community of over 250K parents. They’re like a super-powered team, cutting through the noise and pointing families towards products – and brands – that are genuinely worth their time and money.

Now, let’s talk about what earning this seal actually means for your brand:

1. Best of the best: Earning that PTPA seal isn’t just a nice little bonus – it’s the crème de la crème of product awards. It’s like telling customers, “Hey, this product isn’t just good, it’s trusted by parents!” In a world where we’re bombarded with choices, that seal helps your product stand out from everyone else, online and on shelf.

2. Instant street cred: Let’s face it, we all love a great recommendation, right? Well, winning this award is like getting a thumbs up from millions of parents. It’s that trust factor that makes people go, “Okay, if other parents love it, it’s got to be great, right?!”

3. Creating your own fan club: When parents find a product they love, they don’t just keep it to themselves – they tell everyone they know! It’s called social proof, and it drives sales. Your customers become your cheerleaders, spreading the word and telling others to buy from you.

So, a massive congrats to all our winners!

Oh, and remember, for any brands that missed out this time, we’re gearing up for our next round of winners this November, just in time for Black Friday. Want in on the action? Enter your product now to earn the seal in time for the busiest shopping season of the year!