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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.

Remembering Mother

Virginia Berman

Thirty years ago, my mom’s cancer had come back. When she was uncharacteristically resting in the middle of the day, I was listening…

Mom was a care-taker.

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who’s your mama?

Take good care

A Congregational minister by trade, my mom wrote letters every day, sermons weekly, sent care packages to her adult children, cooked, visited and listened to all of us. She took care of her family, extended family, childhood friends, neighbors, her church . Her dying words to me were, “take care of yourself”. I wondered if with all her care-taking, she felt she neglected to care for herself.

My mom’s words took on more weight when I became a parent. You are familiar with this experience perhaps-caring for children, working and mostly simply surviving.

How do you take care of yourself?

Bedtimes in our house with young children was a struggle. Our kids resisted bedtime and both of our kids had cavities at early dentist appointments so we had to figure out how to pay close attention to the toothbrushing and stay focused on that task. Any reprieve we got from the nagging, resistance, reminders at bedtime was rare and golden. We created the Two Minute Turtle Timer to help us take care of ourselves.

Invented the Two Minute Turtle Timer

Inspired by the need to slow down each night, reduce the nightly struggles between kids and parents and with my mom’s last words still resonating, “take care of yourself”, I am delighted to bring the Two Minute Turtle Timer to you this Mother’s Day week. Honor our mothers by taking care…of ourselves and them!

It sounds a bit silly to love a timer, but the Turtle Timer does exactly what I wanted and that was hard to find. (4).png

This mom reviewed our Turtle Timer after she bought it and summed up why we created it nicely.

So this Mother’s Day the Two Minute Turtle Timer is designed for YOU and a mom you know. Now take good care of yourself, starting with even 2 minutes!