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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you avoiding plastics, do you not have mother-in-laws?[/quote]

No kidding!  Our son is 3 months old and instead of any of the array of nice age-appropriate wooden and natural fiber toys I compiled as options for him, she gave us big sets of vinyl "educational" sorting toys and a plastic version of a shape sorting toy that we already have a wood version of.  I am going to have to air the stuff outside for weeks before the smell will go away (that's a pretty good clue, by the way: if there's a smell, it's not safe for kids to be inhaling).  She is all gung-ho about education but seemingly totally uneducated about plastics for kids. [/quote]

Person you quoted here. My sincere advice to you is to sit down now, before she's bought so much plastic that it is a VERY uncomfortable topic, and tell her exactly why you are avoiding plastic. Personally, I don't know how much I fear plastic itself (we don't eat off of it, store food in it, or chew it in our house, but we do have some plastic toys that I have okay'd) but I don't like the cheaply manufactured plastic stuff that takes batteries. I abhor things things for other reasons, though. I think they're developmentally detrimental. I wish like ANYTHING we would have had a very explicit conversation with both sets of grandparents at an early time saying we were basically afraid of plastic. Because we waited, we now have grandparents that have bought so much stuff like that, that it's like saying "we hate what you've got us." Which sucks. Because we do, but saying so seems so darn ungrateful. My in-laws, at least, don't believe the "hype" about how plastic is bad for you. However, if we'd have said "no plastic toys, no battery operated toys" from the beginning, we would be in much better shape.

I blame my husband, who didn't want to hurt his mom's feelings. Grrrrr. [/quote]

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