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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).

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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.

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Virginia Berman

Do you know someone in your life who is graduating? Whether it’s Kindergarten or high school, you’re moving up!

What are important attributes of a graduation gift? We say it should include at least 2 of these:

  • practical or whimsical

  • celebrates their hard work

  • Helps them take the next step to independence

  • Affordable (after all you have a child to support at home or at college)!

When my child went to kindergarten, other parents with older children told me that the only other milestone in their child’s life that felt as meaningful as going to kindergarten was going off to college. These are life-changing steps that call for a gift to meet the weight of the occasion!

This year I have a high-school senior who will go to college in the fall and will be packing her Turtle Timer. If you have a friend who is graduating, what do you like to get them that is: 1) practical and whimsical, 2) celebrates her hard work, 3) helps her take the next step toward independence, and 5) is affordable?

The Turtle Timer is one option for you—fun because it lights up in four colors, it’s adorable, it ensures a healthy habit, and costs less than $20. A parent has a lot to worry about when a child leaves home. Give them one less worry—with a new Turtle Timer in tow!

As you’re choosing a graduation gift, let us help. Tell us so that we can add a little something special—for the kindergartener, a free kid’s toothbrush and a Two Minute Turtle Timer sticker; for the college freshman, a fun sticker. Congratulations!