Mum's with Autism and mum's with children with autism

Is my new routine strange? 😅

About a month ago my 2.5 year old dropped his nap. I started to notice on days where we didn’t go out and had no plans by around 5/6 he would get really restless and start going crazy, throwing things round the room, screaming, throwing his body around the room.. almost like he was really cooped up and needed to let of some stream. I have no garden unfortunately:( It was an awkward time where I was making dinner then bath and bed, so couldn’t really take him out. As the nap was around 2 hours it used to really split up the day.

Now when we have days where we have nothing to do I’ll make a point to go for a walk at least or to the park but that still leaves a lot of the day with not much to do.

I’ve started around his old nap time taking him into the bedroom with his iPad we lay together for about an hour - 1.5 hours cuddling and winding down, I feel like it splits up the day abit it and calms him ready for the last part of the day.
(By the way this isn’t every day, with it being school holidays we have busy days and quite days)

Does anyone think this is a good idea or bad one? I have a sense of guilt cos I feel like by nature kids should be playing and having fun, rather than being in bed having screen time but it really does make the evenings easier?

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