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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 Travels

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 Travels

Virginia Berman

bring the 2 minute turtle timer on vacation

Travelling, with all the planning, packing, adjusting to being in a new climate or schedule or lack of schedule, is work!  To be a traveller means to be, at some point in the journey--thirsty, hungry and tired!  We're not in the comforts of home any more.  No wonder the English word to travel comes from the French word for pain, travails, travailler.  Children like and need routines. Even with the fun of vacation,  it disrupts family routine and some loss of control.

Maintaining healthy habits like toothbrushing on the road takes more work for families.  The Two Minute Turtle timer is a small, simple way to maintain some structure for kids and keep up their daily toothbrushing habits on the road.  The Two Minute Turtle travels well in any travel pack.  Keep up the kids' healthy habits this Summer. Take a little bit of the travail out of your travels this Summer with the Two Minute Turtle timer.  We did (without even having the children on the trip)!

Two Minute Turtle timer went with us to Paris. Here it is in the gardens

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