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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.

Holiday Shopping for Children

Virginia Berman

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