This week’s Roundup of Mom’s Choice Award winners is extra special because it features THREE weeks of winners! We’ve got everything from kids apps and educational books to the perfect baby shower gifts! Be sure to scroll through the entire list so you don’t miss any of our new award-winners! All the items you see below won a Mom’s Choice Award during September 1, 2019 to September 21, 2019.
Every week companies, inventors, and publishers from around the world send us their products for evaluation. Only the best earn our designation.
Sayin’ It Sam™
The Future of Children’s Speech Technology is Here
You can add speech recognition to your apps and we’re here to help.
We’ve pushed the boundaries of children’s games with speech recognition technology so they can be played by voice. Sayin’ It Sam™ game is currently live on the App Store for iPhones and iPads. It is free with in-app purchases. Your child will be able to animate characters with their voice while they learn their colors.
Sayin’ It Sam can motivate your child to practice speech while having fun.
Educational Products:
Toddlers
Rolly and Mac
Written by Kim English; Illustrated by Yis Vang
Rolly and Mac are the newest additions to the farm. But their friendship is tested when the other animals say they are too different to get along.
Children’s Picture Books:
Domestic Animals & Pets
Puffy and the Formidable Foe
Written by Ann Marie Hannon, Marie Lepkowski; Illustrated by Ann Marie Hannon
The “hero” in “Puffy and the Formidable Foe” is a small gray kitten who strays away from home, and learns an extremely important lesson. This lesson is one that young children from toddler to K-5 absolutely love to learn, and find easy to take to heart. This is the first in a series of “Puffy” books, and this one gives parents an easy way to teach their youngsters about the consequences of running away from home, as well as why meeting up with strangers is a very bad idea. Join in and look forward to more episodes like this about a wonderful, loveable pet.
Children’s Picture Books:
Bedtime Stories
Colgate Eco Spring 2-N-1 Crib Mattress
The Eco Spring 2-N-1 was designed to bring eco-friendlier sleep to your baby. This high-quality innerspring crib mattress features a dual-firmness design, engineered to provide both the firmness infants need for proper development and the comfort toddlers prefer.
The cover of the mattress is made with a certified Organic Cotton cover. The Eco Spring 2-N-1’s spring unit is exceptionally high quality, made of 190 coils of thick 14-gauge tempered steel and 6.0-gauge border rods for sturdy edge support. The spring unit is surrounded by eco-friendlier foam made with plant oils and coir fiber insulator pads from coconut shell husks. These sustainable component materials are covered with a certified organic cotton cover, which is waterproof backed,, tear-resistant, and, best of all, ultra-soft on baby’s skin.
Like all Colgate mattresses, the Colgate Eco Spring 2-N-1 is GREENGUARD® Gold certified, CertiPUR-US® certified, CPSIA compliant, and compliant with all federal and state flammability requirements, without the use of fire retardant chemicals. Your Eco Spring 2-N-1 is proudly handcrafted in the USA by Colgate, the Crib Mattress Specialist ®, a family-owned and operated business. Keeping dreams safe since 1955.
Gear & Accessories:
Bedding & Room Decor
Baby Shusher – Sleep Miracle Soother For New Parents
This groundbreaking sleep miracle soother is the perfect gift for your next baby shower and any first-time parent! The Baby Shusher is a revolutionary sleep device using an ancient, doctor-tested and approved rhythmic shushing technique to help soothe your fussy little one. End your child’s crying spells quickly, safely, and easily by engaging their natural calming reflex with a real human voice that helps lull them to sleep. The Baby Shusher Sleep Soother is small, compact, and easy to clean so that you can take it with you wherever you go—whatever the situation. Get much-needed sleep, for you and your baby, with Baby Shusher!
Personal Use Products (Skin Care, Health Care, etc.):
Babies
All About A Boy Who Was Afraid of the Dark: (and how he got over it)
Written by Ann Marie Hannon
Patrick has been afraid of things before, but this time, just before his second birthday, he wakes up at midnight— only to learn that he is afraid of the dark. Can Patrick’s older sister, Margy, help him to stop being afraid? Read how it all develops if brother and sister work as a team.
Children’s Picture Books:
Bedtime Stories
A Going Home Surprise
Written by Ann Marie Hannon
When a child wants a pet, here is a book and story that may help in making that decision. “A Going Home Surprise” offers themes to help you to know whether a child is ready to own a pet, or if the child is not yet ready to accept the responsibility and the routine of pet ownership.
“A Going Home Surprise” also conveys in a simple way the comfort provided with owning a pet, and how immensely rewarding having a pet can be for a child whose sense of caring may result in “worries” or feeling anxious.
Most of all, this book is intended to help anyone speak with a child about the benefits AND problems that can occur with owning a pet. But, above all, it serves in a small way to help both parents and children to to effectively handle one of life’s AWESOME eventualities which is the right time and place to have a family pet.
Children’s Picture Books:
Domestic Animals & Pets
