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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).

Two Minute Turtle Timer Solving Parents' Problems

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.

Two Minute Turtle Timer Solving Parents' Problems

Virginia Berman

Have you tried to get your 4 year old to brush their teeth for 2 minutes twice daily? When I took my 4 year old to her first dentist, I was shocked to learn she had 7 cavities. We tried using the sand timer and an electric toothbrush. They didn’t work. So we created something that did. A teenager now, she hasn’t had cavities since she started using it and she’s still positively addicted….

2 minute timer for toothbrushing

Parents and those supporting us are finding the Two Minute Turtle Timer for their visual thinkers. The Two Minute Turtle Timer is based on kids taking ownership-press the simple on-off button and follow the turtle through the mouth. Brush the part of the mouth that corresponds to the blinking flipper. Each one faster than the one before it til the Victory Lap-brush the tongue! Children all know the tortoise and the hare and no kid wants to be the one who quits before the Turtle’s does!

2 minute timer to make toothbrushing fun

Behavioral analysts, preschool teachers and pediatric dentists are recommending the Two Minute Turtle Timer for visual thinkers at bedtime and for help getting out the door more quickly. Make daily 2 minute tasks more fun with this simple gadget that builds independence for kids ages 4-10 or visual thinkers of any age.

brushing teeth with the 2 minute timer, two minute turtle, is fun

Great for kids with learning disabilities, autism though really Two Minute Turtle Timer works for anyone who is a visual thinker!