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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.

5 Star Customer Review with a Beautiful Description!

Virginia Berman

Dear Invent Boston & Two Minute Turtle Timer Fans,

Thank you for your reviews. I just found this beauty from August 2021 on Amazon. If you are wondering IF you should get a Turtle Timer and WHY, this kind shopper is eloquent enough to tell you. Thanks to the person who wrote this. And let me know, dear reader, if you still have any doubts about this little investment, the Turtle Timer, for you!

Slow and steady,

Virginia & the Turtle Timer Team

To see the Unabridged Customer Review, read on…

“Listen. Y'all need to buy this right here for your kids. This is an A+ product. Let me describe the ways:

1) Aesthetics: It's cute

2) Safety: It's easy to put in and take out the required batteries (batteries not included). The battery cover is screw locked so your kids aren't going to pull out the batteries and eat them.

3) Education: The flippers (turtles don't have fins) light up in primary colors to teach colors, and they blink to teach counting. First 30 seconds = 1 blink, second 30 seconds = 2 blinks, third 30 seconds = 3 blinks, fourth 30 seconds = 4 blinks

4) Oral health: The ultimate reason to buy this product. Each flipper blinks for 30 seconds (I timed them) for a total of 2 minutes, which is the brushing time the American Dental Association (ADA) recommends. ALSO for every new "session" a different flipper starts blinking first. Which is good, because the ADA recommends starting in a different tooth quadrant every time you brush your teeth (because we humans tend to get lazy with the last two quadrants when we are brushing our teeth).

This product is the only one like it on the market. (I know because I scoured the internet.)

This product is a cute and excellent learning tool. I purchased this product for my 4 little cousins who are learning how to properly brush their teeth.”

-The Tilestons, August 2021