Heshy-
Tip #1-Invest in a big dishwasher, and buy more dishes-not expensive one’s
#2-Give everyone real china and the really little kids give them plastic-they sell really nice shabbos plastic-besides saving you dishes to wash you save yourself a few less broken dishes!In my house we always do this!My parents were not prepared to give a 3 year old china plates to break!
Tip #4- Compromise have china for Shabbos night and day and not shalosh seudos- or have china but nice plastic cups!
Tip #5-Ask a cleaning lady to come for 2 hours on shabbbos night or day-you can leave the dirty dishes in a neat pile for the next day-WE did that on Pesach and it saved everybody a lot of Agmas Nefesh!
It doesn’t really matter if you have plastic or china!However china adds a special ambieance to a Shabbos table that you are not going to get with plastic!