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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).

To See Something Isn't Easy, Like Having a Friend Isn't Easy. To See Takes Time Like to Have a Friend Takes Time * Could a Turtle Timer Help You Keep Friends?

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.

To See Something Isn't Easy, Like Having a Friend Isn't Easy. To See Takes Time Like to Have a Friend Takes Time * Could a Turtle Timer Help You Keep Friends?

Virginia Berman

Two Minute Turtle Timer for Valentine's Day

*Georgia O’Keefe poem

The Two Minute Turtle Timer was designed for toothbrushing and it works well for that. You already know that—you brush each corner of the mouth corresponding the blinking flipper, until the Victory Lap signalling to brush the tonuge.

BUT this interval Two Minute Turtle Timer has other uses. What else would you use it for? One way I recommend-it’s simple but not easy—in this season of Saint Valentine is to use it to help see—someone you like.

Find someone you love (family, friend, lover—you know who). And ask them for 2 minutes and if they will play a game with you. The game? Press the turtle and each of you look into the other’s eyes until the Two Minute Turtle Timer stops blinking (you’ll see it from the corner of your eye!). Try it out. It’s a tried and true way to become more intimate with one you love.

This Valentine’s Day take time to look. Let the new Turtle Timer help all of us to slow down and see the beauty in those around us.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

tags 2 minute timer, valentines day, two minute turtle timer