System management utilities should have a GUI, or at least a web UI. I have a really hard time remembering the specific commands to look at my docker instance and overall system health... There's absolutely no reason to not have that all in one dashboard.
No, stay away from Apple. Their parental controls are godawful, (granular, but awful) because it randomly disables itself. I've watched it happen with my own eyes.
Pinwheel, Gabb, Bark, MMGuardian, and others sell cheap Android phones with custom firmware tailored to kids with backdoors for parents to control and monitor them.