A Turtle Timer for 4 Seasons

Every season with Turtle Timer. Toothbrushing…

and beyond!

Add color to the spare, focused nights of Winter

Shine light in Spring time

Extend those dreamy long Summery nights

and brighten up the shortening days of Fall.

Get a Turtle this season and make your holidays peaceful and bright!

The Turtle Timer accompanies throughout year.

Where Can You Find a Perfect Little Gift this Holiday

What gift is going to be received with delight, and last for months?

What’s so affordable adorable helpful and delightful?

Find the Two Minute Turtle Timer, a gift for kids, on these sites:

Holiday Shopping for Children

Dear Invent Boston fans,

I have a question for you--It’s early November. Have you shopped for gifts for children yet for this holiday season?

Here’s why I would like to know. 2020 was the first holiday season with our new Two Minute Turtle Timer. Projecting our sales and managing inventory for the holiday season, is an art and a science and we are still learning.

It will be helpful to see how many of you have already shopped for kids for the holidays. Or if you, like most, are waiting to shop.

This year estimating our sales is trickier due to the global supply-shortages and shipping delays due to the pandemic. Have people seen that and shopped early? Will folks buy fewer physical products and instead buy services or food? Will people just shop less? Or will it be last-minute panic shopping, as is my style?

If many of you still have not shopped for kids yet and plan to, then we may need more holiday orders of the Turtle Timer. If many of you bought your gifts earlier this year, then we can know that things will not be as busy.

Thanks for helping us as we manage the Two Minute Turtle Timer inventory and gifts for children this holiday season.

Best

Virginia

Two Minute Turtle Timer Gets 5 Star Reviews on Amazon

You do a better job than we can at sharing why the Turtle Timer is so wonderful. This product review from the Tilestons says it well and grades the Two Minute Turtle Timer for brushing teeth with an A+. Here ' it is in their own words:

“Listen. Y'all need to buy this right here for your kids. This is an A+ product.

Let me describe the ways.

1) Asthetics: It's cute
2) Safety: It's easy to put in and take out the required batteries (batteries not included). The battery cover is screw locked so your kids aren't going to pull out the batteries and eat them.
3) Education: The flippers (turtles don't have fins) light up in primary colors to teach colors, and they blink to teach counting. First 30 seconds = 1 blink, second 30 seconds = 2 blinks, third 30 seconds = 3 blinks, fourth 30 seconds = 4 blinks
4) Oral health: The ultimate reason to buy this product. Each flipper blinks for 30 seconds (I timed them) for a total of 2 minutes, which is the brushing time the American Dental Association (ADA) recommends. ALSO for every new "session" a different flipper starts blinking first. Which is good, because the ADA recommends starting in a different tooth quadrant every time you brush your teeth (because we humans tend to get lazy with the last two quadrants when we are brushing our teeth).

This product is the only one like it on the market. (I know because I scoured the internet.) It also came with a little tooth brush and personalized note.

This product is a cute and excellent learning tool. I purchased this product for my 4 little cousins who are learning how to properly brush their teeth.”

The Tilestons, Amazon August 2021

For more Turtle Timer customer reviews go to: Amazon Turtle Timer Consumer Product Reviews

A New Timer in the Making

Dear Friends of Invent Boston,

We have been using the Two Minute Turtle Timer in our home for toothbrushing primarily but also for: stretching and timing our coffee brewing (drip brew). We love hearing from you about how the Turtle Timer is used in your home, too.

We have more ideas for ways these turtle-timed lights can help us get more healthy stuff done. Our next timer is going to help with those chores that are easy to forget about—like changing the bed sheets! Not to get too personal here, but how often do you change sheets at home? Do you do it or do you have it done for you?

If you are like us, we forget when we last changed the sheets. And yes, the timer will be for 1 week and more. We’d like to learn - how do you keep track of your sheet changing? Do you use a calendar? Is it working for you? Would you like to test out a sheet-changing timer to help alert you to when it’s time to change sheets?

Let us know and we’ll let you know how you can test our prototype.

Thanks. Slow and steady

Virginia and the Turtle Timer Team

Our pup enjoys a good clean bed sheet too.

5 Star Customer Review with a Beautiful Description!

Dear Invent Boston & Two Minute Turtle Timer Fans,

Thank you for your reviews. I just found this beauty from August 2021 on Amazon. If you are wondering IF you should get a Turtle Timer and WHY, this kind shopper is eloquent enough to tell you. Thanks to the person who wrote this. And let me know, dear reader, if you still have any doubts about this little investment, the Turtle Timer, for you!

Slow and steady,

Virginia & the Turtle Timer Team

To see the Unabridged Customer Review, read on…

“Listen. Y'all need to buy this right here for your kids. This is an A+ product. Let me describe the ways:

1) Aesthetics: It's cute

2) Safety: It's easy to put in and take out the required batteries (batteries not included). The battery cover is screw locked so your kids aren't going to pull out the batteries and eat them.

3) Education: The flippers (turtles don't have fins) light up in primary colors to teach colors, and they blink to teach counting. First 30 seconds = 1 blink, second 30 seconds = 2 blinks, third 30 seconds = 3 blinks, fourth 30 seconds = 4 blinks

4) Oral health: The ultimate reason to buy this product. Each flipper blinks for 30 seconds (I timed them) for a total of 2 minutes, which is the brushing time the American Dental Association (ADA) recommends. ALSO for every new "session" a different flipper starts blinking first. Which is good, because the ADA recommends starting in a different tooth quadrant every time you brush your teeth (because we humans tend to get lazy with the last two quadrants when we are brushing our teeth).

This product is the only one like it on the market. (I know because I scoured the internet.)

This product is a cute and excellent learning tool. I purchased this product for my 4 little cousins who are learning how to properly brush their teeth.”

-The Tilestons, August 2021

Finding Time for Healthy Habits with Your Turtle Timer

What habit do you want but are not doing?

We know we cannot do everything - we all have our limits. However, when something is important to us and we STILL are not doing it , then we need to take action and Turtle Timer is our helper to take an action, our habit-forming-companion.

Which habit is important to you, but you still are not doing? Some activities that I needed to bring my Turtle Timer in to help me include: doing core exercises, practicing guitar, meditating.

“But surely, you must do something for more than 2 minutes to make it worthwhile … right?, “ To that, I say, “No!” To do anything you first have to set yourself up and DO it. Even 2 minutes is DOING It. Choose your activity. Get your Turtle Timer. Press the Turtle button and do it. Make it a routine. Simple.

The truth is, you can do anything for 2 minutes.

You may even find you want to press the Turtle Timer again once the 2 minutes are done and go for 4 minutes. That’s a benefit of the Turtle Timer—it’s FUN to press. Another feature is you want to stay til its done Bonus feature of the Turtle Timer: there are no phones for distractions.

Now, time to get started!

What activity do you want to do but are not yet doing? …Once decided, get your Turtle Timer by your side. Set up your practice and press the Turtle Timer. Go for the 2 minutes, regularly—every day or every other day as you decide how often.

Not suddenly, not quickly, but eventually, like a turtle, you will find yourself doing the thing that you wanted to do. If it’s core exercises, you will feel your abdomen get a bit more firm. If it’s guitar, you’ll find your fingers getting the callouses you need to pluck and feeling the strings again. If it’s meditation, you’ll find yourself more quickly settling into mindful breathing.

The Two Minute Turtle Timer is your tool to get started on the habit you want to add to your routine!

Sending you all the best in your success in getting started, slow and steady!

T for 2 and 2 for T, a Turtle for them and a Thank You to You!

T stands for Turtle, Two, Teeth, Timer and Thank you!

We know you have choices when it came time to buy your toothbrushing timer! You took the leap of trying a new way to time toothbrushing! And we’re glad you did.

So, you have worked to get your Turtle Timer for your favorite child. (It’s not easy to find us). I hope the Turtle Timer works hard for you, too!

If you bought a Two Minute Turtle Timer will you write a review of it and tell a friend about it?

Customer reviews show the many ways people love the Turtle and we, in turn, love your reviews.

If you have not yet chosen a timer and are considering getting a Turtle Timer for Toothbrushing, some of the benefits with words from parents:

• Delights you and your child when you see it, “she takes her turtle to bed”

• Feels good when you press it. “my kids all want to press and turn the turtle on!”

• Keeps you guessing when the first light blinks “the secret of parenting”

• Has you brushing your whole mouth “it’s magic-no more 10 second brushing”

• Keeps you focused for 2 minutes “it’s witchcraft!”

• Rewards your focus with a Victory Lap, “kids ask to brush their teeth now!”

• And, no promises, but if it’s like with our results —no cavities! “the dentist sees the difference”

Gift for Kids Going to College

Looking for a gift for a student moving to college? Find something that helps them AND their parents!

Features in a gift for a young adult moving from home :

• Convenient

  They need to use it without having to spend time reading instructions. Keep it simple.

• Features their Healthy Habits

  Parents want to know when a child moves away to college that the young adult will remember what they learned at home! Keep up good habits on their own.

• Portable

  Dorm living is “compact and cozy”. Kids don’t have extra space and so they need to pack judiciously—everything with a purpose.

• Novel

  College kids are becoming adults, growing into themselves, so they love to show their uniqueness. Sometimes that happens with the things they carry, like this original, effective little Turtle Timer for Toothbrushing!

How to Brush Teeth Longer?

How DO you get kids and adults to brush teeth longer?

Here’s how to get kids to brush longer. No more nagging nor need for an expensive toothbrush.

!. Make brushing teeth fun

2. Make brushing teeth simple. No devices needed.

3. Make brushing teeth their habit, not yours to nag them to do.

4. And you don’t have to brush teeth alone—the Two Minute Turtle Timer is an adorable companion when we brush our teeth.

Even, this chap, no longer a kid, sees the Turtle Timer helping his brushing longer. Disclaimer: The person in the video is the author’s father. Check out his experience in his words: video

8 Reasons Why Teens Like the Two Minute Turtle Timer for Toothbrushing, Too!

Why is it so tough to shop for teenagers? Teens are developing their preferences along with their sense of belonging all while forming strong opinions about both—AND these opinions change rapidly. Plus, most teens have little money of their own to buy things. So, still dependent on parents but critical of our (my) shopping tastes, what’s a parent of teens to do?

The Turtle Timer is one small but mighty way to help! The original Two Minute Turtle Timer is a gift teenagers will genuinely want; it won’t lead to more screen time AND it will lead to healthier habits and independence!

Teenagers love our original version of our Two Minute Turtle Timer. Here’s why. It’s….

1. Tactile—Feels good to press the big, green button.

2. Visual—The light-up Turtle Timer is adorable.

3. Helpful— Healthy without intruding.

4. Their own—Kids take charge of their habits with Turtle Timer.

5. Not a device or an app—Teens like to do some things without their devices

6. Original—They will be the first to have the Turtle Timer.

7. Versatile—Turtle can be used as a timer for games or hand washing

8. Portable—Teens can pack it on overnights.

So, the original Turtle Timer is a gift that will make your teen AND you, happy. Get it while they last. The original version is in limited supply. Made in Boston and Maine. Available colors: clear, blue and red. The perfect stocking stuffer.

Part 2: Cook Children's Health Care System Dentist, Recommends Turtle Timer for Toothbrushing

Learning to Brush Teeth with Turtle Timer

We design and develop the Two Minute Turtle Timer.  In our family we all like it and use it, but its real value comes when others find it and LIKE IT, too! Thanks to the folks at Cook Children’s Health Care System and Dr. Fuqua, more families are finding the Two Minute Turtle Timer. This young lady, Ava, is a young brusher and she is focused!  According to her dad, she loves her Turtle Timer. I think the photo captures this too. That determined face shows she is going to brush her teeth for the full 2 minutes!

We love to see your Two Minute Turtle Timer in action. For parents who prefer not to have another device in the bathroom at bedtime, the Two Minute Turtle Timer is for you. It’s also for folks of all ages who need a nudge, a game, or flashing turtle feet to help them keep track of where they are in their 2 minutes of brushing.  If you have a Turtle Timer and can take a photo of you or your youngster using it, we would love to share that with others wondering about the Turtle Timer.

Thank you to the Cook Children’s Health Care and to Ms. Ava and her family for showing us how you put the Turtle Timer to work in your home. We wish you many quiet brushing nights—no more reminders. And uneventful dentist visits—fingers crossed—no cavities!