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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).

We've Been Washing All Wrong. Finally We've Got The Time on our Hands. Find out How to Wash Hands Correctly And Get Them Really Clean

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.

We've Been Washing All Wrong. Finally We've Got The Time on our Hands. Find out How to Wash Hands Correctly And Get Them Really Clean

Virginia Berman

At Last, We Have Time to Wash our Hands Correctly

With schools closed and fewer commutes, we have time to teach children and ourselves how to wash hands the right way. Not only can we, but we must, to stay healthy through the pandemic, washing for at least 20 seconds every time. Most of us have not made a practice of washing our hands for the full 20 seconds. And for kids, who are visual thinkers, 20 seconds is a long time. Kids and visual thinkers benefit from a count-down or a way to see and know when 20 seconds is up. Rather than singing the Happy Birthday song, kids and visual thinkers respond to visual cues. The new Two Minute Turtle Timer helps visual thinkers and kids wash hands for 20 seconds.

This new analog Turtle Timer is water-resistant and, like it’s predecessor, sticks to the bathroom mirror. Press the button, watch for the first flipper to blink, and wash with soap and water as long as the first flipper is blinking. Then, rinse while the second flipper blinks. There’s no need for screens in the bathroom.

Join the hand-washing healthy-habit brigade with the help of the new Two Minute Turtle Timer. Kids enjoy pushing the turtle’s button. Press, guess which flipper will blink first, and get scrubbing to keep us all healthy.

Designed by parents for parents. The Two Minute Turtle Timer works for toothbrushing too. For toothbrushing, brush the quadrant of teeth corresponding to the first blinking flipper for the full 2 minutes, then go on to brush the other quadrants, for two minutes each, as directed by the successive blinking flippers. Slow and steady wins this race.

Make healthy fun at home for parents and kids. The Two Minute Turtle Timer transforms daily habits like hand washing and toothbrushing


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categories kids hand washing timer, two minute timer, two minute turtle timer
tags Two Minute Turtle Timer