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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.

A New Timer in the Making

Virginia Berman

Dear Friends of Invent Boston,

We have been using the Two Minute Turtle Timer in our home for toothbrushing primarily but also for: stretching and timing our coffee brewing (drip brew). We love hearing from you about how the Turtle Timer is used in your home, too.

We have more ideas for ways these turtle-timed lights can help us get more healthy stuff done. Our next timer is going to help with those chores that are easy to forget about—like changing the bed sheets! Not to get too personal here, but how often do you change sheets at home? Do you do it or do you have it done for you?

If you are like us, we forget when we last changed the sheets. And yes, the timer will be for 1 week and more. We’d like to learn - how do you keep track of your sheet changing? Do you use a calendar? Is it working for you? Would you like to test out a sheet-changing timer to help alert you to when it’s time to change sheets?

Let us know and we’ll let you know how you can test our prototype.

Thanks. Slow and steady

Virginia and the Turtle Timer Team

Our pup enjoys a good clean bed sheet too.

Our pup enjoys a good clean bed sheet too.