Our Baby Dishes Are Your Safe Choice For A Plastic-Free Baby

Choose Your Baby Dishes: Complete Set: $45.00 7.5" Plate: $16.00 5.5" Bowl: $15.50 3" Cup: $15.50 Quantity:

Click on thumbnails to view full image Complete Set $45.00 7.5" Plate $16.00 5.5" Bowl $14.00 3" Cup $15.00   You take great care to ensure that Baby's first meals are healthy. Make sure the dishes match this level of care. Our Shamrock children's dinnerware is non-toxic and smart! Dimensions: Mug: 3" H x 2 1/2" W Bowl: 5 1/2" W x 1 1/2" H Plate: 7 1/2" W

Why is plastic dangerous for babies and children?

If you've been hearing the news lately about plastic being harmful to babies, chances are, the stories you have encountered featured the presence of Bisphenol-A (BPA) in baby bottles. For over 70 years, scientists have known that BPA is an endocrine disruptor. It mimics estrogen and can cause a variety of serious human health issues including cancers, reproductive health disorders and obesity - legacies no loving parent would knowingly wish for their child. BPA leaches out of plastic, especially when it is heated, as in the case of dishwashing, microwaving or serving a heated liquid or food. If you're anything like us, you're probably asking, "Well if scientists have know about this for 70 years, what on earth is BPA doing in baby bottles?"

It seems to us as though the trouble with plastics is that, despite the fact that science has been aware of their perils for generations, it's only recently that anyone has really started to take those perils seriously. Until now, the goals of industry have been given precedence over your right to be able to find safe, healthy housewares and goods for your family. We're very glad to see this changing in America as smarter citizens demand safe products.

BPA is just one of the toxic components in modern plastics. Many types of plastic, and the manufacture of them, have been found contaminating our air, our water and our bodies. First invented in a laboratory in 1862, plastics are a relative newcomer to the human family scene, but in that short amount of time, they have taken a very heavy toll on our landfills, oceans and health. Marketed as convenient and cheap, plastic has caused us to pay a price that few of us really understood. Now we have the knowledge we need to make wiser choices for our children and ourselves.

And it isn't just plastics we've recently become concerned about. Over the past few years, America has suffered one health scare after another over toxic, imported products. Toxic metals have been especially alarming in children's lunchboxes and toys and conscientious parents are opting to do their own research these days rather than simply relying on the work of trade agencies to keep kids safe. But, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed by your efforts to raise a plastic-free child and also protect him or her from dangerous metals. What choices do you have left?

Enter Ceramic - The Time-Honored, Non-Toxic Choice

For an estimated 30,000 years, human beings have made the necessities of life - as well as beautiful works of art - out of ceramics. Nothing could be smarter, greener or saner than eating vessels made right out of the great earth. When you set a set of ceramic dishes before your child, you are serving up tradition and good sense.

To be safe using ceramics as your choice of material for baby dishes and any children's dinnerware, be absolutely certain it is 100% lead-free. All Emerson Creek Pottery is made in the USA of lead-free ceramic clay and is non-toxic. It is microwave and dishwasher safe and is an excellent choice for your child's first set of dishes.

Other safe alternatives include glass and American-made stainless steel. Taking plastic and suspicious metals out of your home may seem limiting at first, but we hope that the ceramic baby dish sets we've created will convince you that you've got great, safe options to choose from for your family.

Honoring Children's Need For Real Goods

We've noticed that the advent of a world of plastics for children seemed to coincide with new attitudes about raising youngsters. These new attitudes hinged on setting children apart in a world of their own, jam-packed with hi-tech products exploding with noise, crazy colors and blinking lights. It's almost as if, somewhere along the line, manufacturers and marketers decided that children were some type of different species that needed to be overwhelmed with stimuli in order to be happy. Many of us have had the opportunity to notice that most children actually get more mileage out of a set of wooden blocks than they do out of this year's hottest throw-away plastic toy.

More importantly, caring adults have noticed that babies and children are happiest when they are being allowed to fully participate in family life. Eating, playing and working at great projects alongside adults is what helps little ones grow to recognize themselves as an important part of the human family. Have you ever noticed how toddlers want nothing more than to get to do what you're doing? Whether that's sweeping the floor, making dinner or planting something in the garden, the heart of a child seems happiest when it's included in the everyday tasks of making home a good place to live.

Our ceramic children's dinnerware offers you a chance to honor your child's need for real goods - just like the ones the big kids and grownups are using! Rather than buying into the false belief that children need cheap, substitute plastic products, why not purchase something handmade, safe and genuine that will show your child that you think he or she is worthy of real goods? The potters at Emerson Creek Pottery definitely believe your child deserves this kind of quality.

What About Breakage?

One of plastic's most convincing selling points has been that it doesn't break if dropped on the floor. Of course, this is also the reason we're having such a problem with it in landfills! Though our ceramic baby dish, baby bowl and baby cup sets are made of very sturdy ceramic, we're not going to try to sell you on this with the plastic 'advantage' of being indestructible. If baby is left unsupervised and decides he has had it with strained carrots and throws his plate on the floor, yes, it just might break. Our advice to concerned parents - eat with your baby! Don't set him off on his own to eat. That's not appetizing or sociable for anyone, and we bet you can head off plate-throwing at the table if you're enjoying meals alongside your little one.

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