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Boston, MA, 02131
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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).

Turtle Timer Answers Call of Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman "The Hill We Climb"

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.

Turtle Timer Answers Call of Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman "The Hill We Climb"

Virginia Berman

A poem inspired by the Inauguration Youth Poet Laureate on Wednesday Jan. 21, 2021

Can We SEE the light?

Where do children go for light in the shade

and what do we grown-ups offer, to aid?

Poet Gorman says to seek and find

light that’s near us - right inside.

And so the Turtle Timer lights up every morn’n eventide.

Bringin’ sparkle to our shining smiles

without nightly battles toil or trials.

The Turtle Timer is new, not easy to find! So try it, light up your smile, dear human kind!

-Virginia Berman, with apologies to the most wonderful youth poet laureate, Amanda Gordon

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