Feeling exhausted. does anyone avoid screen time w dc when pregnant?

[StarlightIntheNight]

I don't mind a little screen time. But I would like to have a day here and there with no screen time. We keep it to two hours a day. But my children are up 7:30 and sleeping by 9:30/10pm. I am pregnant with my third and there is only so much I can do. I get exhausted during summer holidays. I take them to the park, swimming, rollerblading, out with the dog for a walk. They only play in the playroom max one hour a day. They read/look at books an hour a day as well. I don't understand how some families can do no screen time at all! They also listen to audio books for example during breakfast ( we are not chatty morning people lol). Anyway, with this pregnancy I don't sleep well so it does not help when I am so tired during the day.

Does anyone manage to avoid screen time all together? How do you do it when school is out? Also, all their friends leave the country all summer so can't even do playdates!! We went away for 3 weeks, but can't really go the entire summer.

limited screen time is fine imo.
but children need to learn to entertain themselves.
my dc are allowed an hour before dinner and sometimes we watch a film or programme in the evening after they are ready for bed.
do they do chores?
do you have a garden to turf them out to?

it's ok for dc to be bored.
it's ok for them to fight (within reason).
that's how dc learn.

orangeshoebox the problem is, my kids drive me nuts sometimes lol. When they play together they can be loud, silly, then someone eventually gets hurt and cries. Sometimes I want them to just sit quietly and play nicely. They don't do chores, but perhaps they should. But again, I just don't have the energy to nag and nag them. They don't just do things when I ask the first time. We have a small garden, which they go outside sometimes, but tbh not that entertaining, unless again I entertain them by setting up paddle, bubbles etc. I know its okay for them to be bored, but they just come bug me instead of being bored! When I was younger, I was just bored and left to myself. I do so much with the kids, take them to park etc. Its exhausting. I wish they could sometimes just be bored (with out driving me nuts!!!!). When I was little I would just go to my room, play by myself, write in my journal, read etc. My dd does that sometimes, but usually I have to sit with her....

DH is never home during the week (comes home just as they go to bed). So days are LONG. I miss when they would both be in bed by 7pm! I think I am just exhausted and frustrated at not having my evenings to re charge.

They usually know how to entertain themselves and get very into games in the playroom when we have something we need to do. Maybe I should start pretending we have an appointment to go to and we will be late...that will ensure they come up with very interesting play at the time we are supposed to leave. Lol.

How old are they? Old enough to do some chores? DS is very good at disappearing for ages if he thinks he's likely to get some jobs!

Age?

During school term time, it’s no screens two days a week.

During the holidays we have two hours a day. They can play but just need ignoring for a bit before they do. They’re 7&9.