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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.

Could Your Kids Be Healthier if They Washed Their Hands Every Time for 20 seconds?

Virginia Berman

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Simply Press the Turtle

Kids learn to wash hands for 20 seconds

How to Help Kids Wash Hands for 20 Seconds?

Here’s a way that gets kids to want to wash the full time. Stick the Two Minute Turtle Timer to the bathroom mirror with the Velcro. Press the Turtle button. Turn on the water and get hands wet. Add soap to the hands. Turn off the water. Lather up for 1 flipper. Each flipper is 30 seconds. Turn on the water and rinse, for about the time of the 2nd flipper. Then dry hands for the 3rd flipper. Thoroughly washed and in less than it takes the Two Minute Turtle Timer to do a full cycle!

How to make handwashing more fun? Where can you find the Two Minute Turtle Timer?

Instructions from The CDC shows how and when to properly wash our hands.


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