Kids keep turning off motion lights

A light switch will typically just switch the hot (black wire) on and off so it will just have one black wire in and another black wire going out. To bypass the switch, just connect the two black wires together in the junction box.

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my kids love flipping switches

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And it's a problem because you can't control them or that they control you?

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Whites should already be together so don’t mess with those.

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Good to know, been a long time since I’ve seen the wiring on light switches.
House was built in the mid 70s

$ 5.00 switch guard from Amazon ( 2 pack)
Amazon link

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I don't know how old your kids are, but if I saw that as a kid, that would be a challenge. But I grew up to be an engineer and puzzles like that intrigued me.

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Partly for kids, partly for wife. Kids were trainable and incurious, wife was the main culprit. Told all them sticking anything in the hole would electrocute them. That seemed to work.

I on the other hand would have proceeded to rise to the challenge and defeat the switch (grew up to be an engineer as well).

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. If I want to bypass the switch, is it as simple as tying all the whites together then all the blacks together? Any potential issues with direct wiring lights and bypassing switches that I’m under thinking?

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That's exactly what I did for my wired ring. I now have a couple of dummy switches because I'm too lazy to change out the gang plate for blanks.

If anyone buys the house, they'll probably spend sometime wondering what the switches go to.

Eta:
While all of the switch guards are fine ideas. For the ring there's really no point on it being on a switch, since the function is all controlled to the app. I direct wired mine just for convenience sake of making sure it's on 24/7 like a security cam is supposed to be.

If you ever get rid of the ring camera and go back to a traditional security light, you can always re wire it back.