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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).

Curious George Goes to the Dentist

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.

Curious George Goes to the Dentist

Virginia Berman

Curious George Makes Brushing Fun with the Two Minute Turtle Timer

The Only Curious George Store carries the Two Minute Turtle Timer. The store has the Two Minute Turtle Timer alongside Curious George Goes to the Dentist book and a Curious George toothbrush. The store wants kids to feel better about that all important habit, brushing their teeth. The store is in Harvard Square, Cambridge. The Curious George store Inventory Supervisor bought 2 for her children. “I am so happy my kids use the Two Minute Turtle Timer! And now they like to brush their teeth. They even race each other even though each one goes for the same length. My 4 year old is autistic so the blinking lights are great to keep his attention.”

This holiday season you can get a new, made by hand in the USA, Two Minute Turtle Timer that makes toothbrushing (or yoga or time-outs) more fun and feels like a game. A stocking stuffer kids and grown-ups can both feel great about!

For you curious ones in Boston, find Curious George at Harvard Square. For the curious outside of Boston, find the original Two Minute Turtle Timer, on the Invent Boston webstore. Be slow, steady and curious!

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