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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.

12 Steps to Start-Up. Show Up Every Day

Virginia Berman

Today the garden reminds me of the importance of being there, every day. Writing during the pandemic of 2020, it’s been possible to do that-go to the garden every day. And now I see what I’ve been missing all the years I couldn’t go as often to the garden. I used to think once a week was enough!

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What do you miss when you don’t show up? The early signs of a peach leaf disease that you can identify and treat, the pruning needs of a spirea plant, the hens are out of water, etc! And like the garden, so too with a business. The value of showing up is that the ideas, problems, solutions happen by being present—giving space to work, listen and try new things.

If this is obvious to you then consider yourself a step ahead. I forget about showing up every day for the important things but I’m reminded how valuable that is to success.

To our mutual success in…showing up!