As parents, we’re always searching for products to help us navigate the parenting journey. These recent NAPPA Award winners each offer ways to support parents and make life a little bit easier and less stressful. Troomi – Safe Smartphones for Kids Provide kids with guardrails for safety and opportunities for growth, learning, personal discovery and […]
Games can enhance connection, build social skills, support critical reasoning skills and simply add more fun to our daily family activities. Congratulations to these recent NAPPA Award winners: Smart Sudoku A hand-held game featuring 2500 paperless puzzles across 5 difficulty levels. The interactive grid provides instant answer checking, auto-timing and connective battle functions to enhance the […]
We’re celebrating Kindness and Inclusion with these recent NAPPA Award winners. Whether it’s through music, books, toys or games, we can show our kids that choosing kindness, celebrating differences and our own uniqueness is always a good idea. Showing respect and compassion not only promotes belonging, but it actually creates a sense of well-being for […]
Surprise Powerz Talking STEM Doll – Astro The Astronaut This talking doll is full of knowledge about planets, moons and stars. With 75+ phrases, sound effects, and singalongs, Astro helps build STEM vocabulary and ignites imaginative play for budding young astronauts. $49.99, ages 2-5, surprisepowerz.com PYXEL A Coder’s Best Friend A pet that teaches coding. […]
Los Angeles-based Skyrocket Toys has won several NAPPA Awards and is the creative force behind Sky Viper Drones, Faction, My Fuzzy Friends, Blume and Pomsies. We had the pleasure of chatting with co-founder and CEO Nelo Lucich on launching his own company, the joys of being a dad and life in SoCal. Please tell us […]
We always enjoying chatting with the creative founders of our NAPPA Award winning toys. Today we’re spotlighting Purpose Toys. The mission behind this Los Angeles-based company is all about celebrating culture and giving children dolls that represent their unique heritage. We’re excited to introduce you to the founder and CEO as we chat about being […]
We’re thrilled to chat with Bill Nichols and Peter Cmiel of Blip’s Toys, who have won NAPPA Awards several times. Thank you for sharing your story with us and our readers. 1. Please tell us a little about your company’s mission. Our mission is to offer innovative toys at reasonable prices. We think of ourselves […]
Thank you for sharing your story with us and our readers. 1. Please tell us a little about your career path and how you ended up in the toy industry? I’d worked in many different industries before finding the toy industry – my tribe. A friend was working at Western Publishing (later purchased by Hasbro). […]
We’re so excited to introduce you to Bill Brady, a father and the founder and CEO of Troomi Wireless, a 2023 NAPPA Award winner. The Troomi mission is to provide kids with a safer smart phone. The device gives parents an easy and flexible set of parental controls to help eliminate the pull of social […]
The ABC Kids Expo took place at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino last month, and I was thrilled to be in attendance. This year’s event once again brought together companies focused on baby and toddler products, ranging from strollers and car seats to smart monitors and anything else that might make parenting and childhood more […]
