For parents and grandparents

7 Reasons Parents Are Leaving This on the Kitchen Counter Instead of Fighting About Screens

👉 Read this before you take their phone away again.

A teenage girl working a route on the Boulder Block, route cards spread on the table in front of her

Your kid comes home, eats, goes upstairs and shuts the door. You text them to come down for dinner, from the kitchen.

You're not after a phone ban. You've tried that. You just want them in the room again, doing something with you.

Here are 7 reasons parents are putting a Boulder Block on the counter instead.

1.Taking the phone away never worked

A boy at the kitchen table working a route on a Boulder Block while a parent watches

Timers, rules, changing the Wi-Fi password. Every one of them turned into an argument, and the door still shut after dinner.

The Boulder Block doesn't try to beat the phone. It only has to be more interesting than the bedroom for an hour.

2.It's harder than anything on their phone

How to use: climb from the start hold to the end hold with your fingers, then move the holds to build your own routes

Nothing on a phone pushes back. This does.

A card shows them a route, and they have to get their fingers from the bottom of the block to the top without slipping off. It looks easy for about five seconds. Nobody gets the first one. That's what keeps them at it.

👉 See why nobody gets the first one

3.Nobody in your house needs to climb

A teenager working a route on the Boulder Block with his fingers

It looks like a climbing wall, but think of it as a Rubik's Cube their fingertips have to climb. It's 12 real climbing holds on solid wood, and their fingers are the climber.

It's a puzzle. That's why they want it.

4.It comes downstairs with them

A teenager working the Boulder Block on the sofa next to his grandfather, who is on his phone

It isn't something that lives in their room. It gets used at the kitchen counter, on the sofa in front of the TV, and in the back of the car.

"Just looks like something the whole family can do while watching TV or on a car ride."
Verified buyer

5.They'll want to beat you at it

A teenage girl in pyjamas on the living-room floor, working a route on the Boulder Block

Don't hand it over. Don't tell them it's good for them. Put it by their cereal bowl and say nothing.

Give it a week and you'll hear it: "Bet you can't do this."

"I think the whole family will fight over it."
Verified buyer

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6.It doesn't run out

The Boulder Block Challenge Deck of route cards, from Yellow to Purple

There are 32 routes, from Yellow to Purple, and each one is harder than the last. When they've finished the deck, the holds unscrew and they start building their own routes for you to try.

7.It's the original, and it's risk-free

Close-up of the solid wood block with real resin climbing holds

Boulder Block™ is our trademark, and it's widely copied. The copies use slipping plastic holds. Ours is solid wood with real climbing holds, and you're buying from the people who invented it.

If it never gets picked up, send it back within 60 days. If a hold breaks, we replace it free.

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