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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.

Graduation Gift for a Child with Special Needs

Virginia Berman

It sounds a bit silly to love a timer, but the Turtle Timer does exactly what I wanted and that was hard to find. (8).png

Are you shopping for a graduation gift for a child with special needs? Would you like a gift that both the child loves and you, the adult, love too? Something that will mark this milestone and help your child to continue to build independence?

The Two Minute Turtle Timer will help you both. It’s so simple that it doesn’t seem possible that a little timer can make such a difference. And not only is the Two Minute Turtle Timer effective at getting kids to want to do their healthy two minute tasks, but it’s adorable. And it uses no extra screen time.

We guarantee you will like it. After making 4500 Two Minute Turtle Timers we have 5-Star reviews from parents and their kids. The Turtle Timer gives kids a timer they can hold, own and have as a friendly companion for any short tasks they may rather not do. It starts with toothbrushing and goes on to physical therapy stretches, taking turns in a game or talking.