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Potty Training Tools for the Summer
Toilet training with your child this summer? Discover our best tips for stress-free potty training and the Time Timer product duo to help.
Take Time This Holiday Season
Happy Holidays from Time Timer! Learn how Time Timer visual timers can help you make every moment count with your friends and family. Read our blog for 4 tips for taking time and a holiday message from our President, Heather Rogers.
How I Use Time Timer: College Edition
Today we have a guest post from second year college student, Corabeth. She shares how Time Timer products have influenced her college career this far and why she recommends them to everyone in college as a study tool.
Helpful Tools for Managing OCD and Germaphobia Anxiety in Everyday Life
If you or someone in your household, workplace, or classroom struggles with washing their hands for an excessive amount of time (or not enough time!), the Time Timer WASH Touchless Handwashing Timer is a game changer. This amazing little timer provides visual cues for each stage of the handwashing “process” as determined by the CDC.
Summary of Back to School Guidelines from the CDC and AAP
We will be giving you a quick summary of The American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) guidelines for in-person learning. The AAP actually recommends a return to in-person learning, one of the reasons being that it is probably better for students’ mental health. The rates of COVID transmission among students can be quite low, under the condition that the correct preventative measures are taken. Among these preventative measures is proper handwashing, which we’ll give special focus to in this article, along with how you can include the Time Timer WASH into you and your children’s handwashing routine.
Get Classroom-Ready with Time Timer WASH
If there’s one thing the Coronavirus pandemic has driven home, it’s the critical importance of keeping your hands clean and away from your face. That’s easier said than done in a classroom full of kids – particularly younger children. Learn how the Time Timer WASH is the perfect tool to implement in the classroom this year.
Summer Activities for the Whole Family
As the days grow longer, we’re looking forward to celebrating the official start of summer. Ready to get outside and take advantage of the warmer weather? Here are a few fun activities for the whole family to enjoy.
Seize the Day With Time Timer
Taking a fresh approach to the New Year is always a good policy. Setting goals and making plans are always smart ways to get back on-track, along with a renewed focus on personal and professional growth. But THIS New Year, it seems more important than ever. A New Year calls for a fresh approach to time management. Time Timer is here to help with our newest products.
Handwashing to Stay Safe and Healthy
Handwashing has always been important...especially in education. I remember watching my (now 14 years old) daughter start her first day of preschool as I peeked around the corner and the first thing she did was wash her hands. Today, handwashing feels like an essential safety practice for protection from COVID-19, which is a health threat well beyond my preschool fears of the common cold. It seems simple enough to wash your hands, but many of us - including me - do not wash for the recommended amount of time (Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization). Or, time spent washing hands is inconsistent. I confess that I have whipped through singing Happy Birthday in order to finish washing as quickly as possible. Others may have a hard time managing steps in a process without a visual cue, have OCD and need a cue to stop, or be deaf...all of these things can make it very hard to properly wash hands while relying on singing a song for timing.
I am very proud of the team at Time Timer that very quickly recognized these challenges and the impact for personal health and safety during this pandemic. We will be launching the Time Timer WASH, which is an innovative visual timer that provides cues that make it easy for anyone, any age or ability level, to spend the correct amount of time and perform the steps in order, for proper handwashing. It may not seem like a big thing to you or me, but for many people among us, it is. It isn't just the independence that it can provide, it is the feeling of safety that comes with knowing that you or the people you care for have successfully washed their hands to protect themselves and those around them.
When I started using the Time Timer WASH, I realized that I wasn't washing my hands long enough previously - despite my effort to be a conscientious handwasher. When I started using it every time I washed my hands, the recommended 20 seconds of scrubbing didn't feel like such a long time anymore. Especially right now during a pandemic, what could be better than the confidence of knowing you or someone you care for has one more line of protection against COVID-19.
Make sure to wash your hands, to do it for long enough, and stay safe.

Heather Rogers

Handwashing at home and at school: A Parents Perspective
As a parent of two boys, one in middle school and one in elementary school, keeping hands clean has been something that we have battled since they were little bitty. Boys are after all, nothing if not dirt magnets, right?
So, when COVID hit, I knew that the phrase “a little dirt don’t hurt,” no longer felt relevant, especially since my kids would be returning to school, in person.
Being at home with our “own” germs is one thing. Keeping both my kids and the other kids, not to mention the teachers and staff of the school at school, safe, seems like a bigger battle. And, it’s has been at the forefront of our minds as a family.
We are incredibly lucky to be partnering with a school that takes the safety and health of the kids so seriously.
Here are some of the ways that my children have shared that things have changed for the better, in my opinion, at their school:
Signs in the bathroom
Let’s be honest here, if I was guessing, I would say that those signs were in the bathroom before March 2020. The important part is that my younger child is noticing them now.
Less Hand Sanitizer, more soap and water.
This is a change that I would like to see stick around. According to my middle schooler, if they ask in class to use hand sanitizer they are instead sent to the restroom to wash up with soap and water, which in my book is a big win!
Wash hands in the bathroom after each class.
This is another change for my middle schooler, because his pod travels to different teachers during the day, they wash their hands between each class, before entering the next classroom.
For my youngest, who is still in elementary and primarily with the same teacher each day, they wash before and after their special area classes (PE, Art, Music) and before and after lunch and recess.
At home, the biggest change that has come about is the fact that we have recently implemented washing hands as soon as we come home from any errands, at school or anything that takes us away from home.
Both of my kids, including my too cool for anything middle schooler, are very excited about the Time Timer WASH. To have a visual reminder of how long hand washing is supposed to take, along with a catchy tune, is just another really good reinforcement of the habits that are more important than ever.
