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Invent Boston designs and develops original products to add science + whimsy to  every day tasks at home.   Our first product is a Two Minute timer, Two Minute Turtle, a visual timer. The Two Minute Turtle helps children and adults focus on two minute tasks such as brushing teeth, physical therapy, taking a shower and speaking (practicing a presentation or learning a language).

Invent Boston™, Home of the Two Minute Turtle Timer™

Invent Boston™ blog offers tips and stories by parents, for parents of children ages 4-12 to make toothbrushing and other healthy habits at home, more fun. We write about simple tactics to help kids do what they like to do-touch, seeing, play games and strive for independence. We recommend products to help stay healthy while being kids. We share stories to transform daily healthy habits from something kids resist (for example, toothbrushing, handwashing, toilet training, organizing, taking time-out or pausing, yoga, and taking turns) into something children are motivated to do independently, without parents’ reminders. The original physical product Invent Boston has designed for families is the new light-up Two Minute Turtle Timer, an analog, interval toothbrush timer to make brushing teeth fun for kids. Kids like to press the button, follow the flippers and brush until all the lights blink—the Victory Lap signals to brush the tongue.

How to Ease Your Budget with Toothbrushing Turtle Timer

Virginia Berman

The Turtle Timer delights kids, helps reduce dental expenses

The Turtle Timer delights kids, helps reduce dental expenses

The American Rescue Plan, our stimulus check, is intended to ease families’ budgets. So, first, we use it to pay off debts we may have. And then, we can spend on something that really makes us smile!

One of the benefits bestowed by the Two Minute Turtle Timer, along with better health, is that it will ease our budgets. Toothbrushing with the Turtle Timer can reduce cavities for kids and adults and lower our dentistry bills. As you spend your check, consider making the Turtle Timer a new habit for your entire family.

With the Turtle Timer, kids want to brush not just for a few seconds but for the full two minutes around their whole mouths. Easier said than done, you say? Not so fast! The Two Minute Turtle Timer is getting five star reviews from parents for a reason. The Turtle Timer helps to motivate kids to brush their teeth thoroughly!

How does this happen? You do not need to get an app, screen time or fancy toothbrush. It’s with - what else but a little, light-up turtle! With the Two Minute Turtle Timer, kids learn to enjoy following the blinking flippers, one corner at a time and brushing their teeth and then, their whole mouth.

The Two Minute Turtle Timer Features:

  • Convenient; Fits in kids’ hands, sticks to the mirror

  • Tactile: Kids like to press the button on the Turtle shell

  • Fun: Kids play the game-follow and guess which flipper will blink first

  • Thorough: Following the turtle flippers, kids brush each part of their mouth equally.

  • Success: All lights blink-the Victory Lap! Time to brush the tongue

The Turtle Timer teaches kids to focus and brush well twice a day. Now, that’s something to smile about. Happy Stimulus Turtles!