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Yea, I don’t want any smart devices.
My short term solution for some crucial monitoring needs has been Yolink products.
I have their hub (without voice nonsense), a couple temp monitors (for a fridge and freezer), and a couple switches (really for power monitoring).
I have their app on my phone with minimal permissions. You don’t need the app - the system will do SMS or email alerts.
Check out Emily Cherkin, I heard an interview with her the other day (she has a new book out: A Judgement Free Guide To Becoming A Tech-Intentional Family), and what she had to say mirrored a lot of the comments here - communication with kids, working with them so they learn how to manage tech themselves (and develop a healthy relationship with it), etc. I haven’t read it, but maybe she has some structural ideas in it (she was a school teacher).
I can say first hand that using blocks, parental controls, etc, are limited tools that should only be used as a small part of the bigger plan (I manage these things for my family and extended family). These tools show that they almost don’t matter - there are successful parents with/without them in my family (I think mostly because all the parents didn’t allow unsupervised tech time when kids were little, so were able to teach some fundamentals organically).
Good luck out there!
Please tell me you’re saving a video of that for when she’s like 25.
I’m so grateful there wasn’t easy video when I was a kid - my family is like a wolf pack, we embarrass each other at the drop of a hat about stuff we did as kids.
Of course you’ll always say “look how cute you were!”