Sarah Chang is a mom trying to navigate the mean streets of Manhattan with a stroller. She writes about raising a bi-cultural daughter at The Stroller Ballet. 

To help us celebrate Mother's Day, Sarah has shared the scary pediatrician edict that hit her right in the guts:

Overweight.

It’s a word I never imagined could be used to describe my 3-year-old. I thought -- and still think -- of Peanut as “fine”. She’s small, but solid. Without so much as the suggestion of a belly. She’s active -- she’ll walk up to 1 mile without complaint. 

Oh, come on. Really?! As if we didn't already know enough bad stuff about sugar and how it can make us everything from overweight to diabetic to toothless, apparently sugar can also make us stupid. Seriously? Life is so stinkin' unfair.

Researchers found that rats who were fed a high-fructose diet had a harder time finding their way out of a complex maze. Great. So does this mean those of us with a yen for Yodels need better GPS systems than potato chip people? Because frankly that makes me a little depressed. (Which only makes me crave cookies even more.)

Thankfully, there is an antidote of sorts for sugar-induced dimwittedness ...

Typical mom of two Katie Hamilton is shrugging off that Time magazine cover photo we can't stop talking about. She knows it was just to sell more magazines, and she thinks most nursing moms know that's not how you nurse a child. But she says it's great that we're talking about it -- especially about extended breastfeeding.

So she gives her reasons for feeding her almost 2-year-old daughter. As another mom who breastfed a toddler, a lot of her reasons resonated with me. But some of her reasons reminded me of why a lot of other moms are turned off by attachment parenting.

Vegans aren't so crazy. They're probably the healthiest people on the planet actually, as there's plenty of research to support that animal products -- especially dairy -- aren't doing us many (if any) favors. Still, going 100 percent vegan isn't for everyone. Unfortunately, it sounds like Glee diva Lea Michele begs to differ. Or, at least, she reportedly hopes that boyfriend Cory Monteith will give up meat and dairy for her.

The rationale, according to an insider: "When Lea has kids, she wants them to be vegan -- and she wants Cory on board." Eeek! Danger, danger. Kinda putting the cart before the horse now, isn't she? Maybe, just a little?

You've seen the Time magazine cover that's been burning up the Internet, right? I'll admit it, my first reaction was to recoil from the image. It seemed deliberately provocative and shocking, and I chalked it up to a clever marketing technique to sell more magazines.

Of course, plenty of people don't think it's shocking at all, and in fact, they're pretty offended that ANYONE would be taken aback by the photo. So then I started feeling like maybe I was a bad person for raising an eyebrow at an innocent image of a mother and child … but then I remembered a somewhat similar nursing scene from Games of Thrones that everyone agreed was shocking.

So: extended breastfeeding! Why are we so disturbed by it?

I'm sorry, say what you will about Madonna and plastic surgery and $86,000 worth of facials and blah blah blah, the woman is 53 years old. And did you SEE the Superbowl Halftime Show this year?

Point is: Madonna looks dang good for her age. Whatever she's doing is obviously working, so why wouldn't the rest of us do it too?

Because we don't have $86,000 to spend on facials, I know. But apparently the true secret to Madonna's glow is actually affordable ...

My children are picky eaters. It's a fact and while I would like to change it, there is no advice that other moms will give me that will help. But that doesn't stop them from trying.

"Stop feeding them separately," some will tell me, while others discourage second meals, tell me I am feeding them too many snacks, not forcing the issue enough, or otherwise committing some grievous food sin that has caused my children to have strong preferences and utter disgust at 90 percent of foods.

To them I say this: You aren't raising my child and you have no idea what you are talking about.

So I don't know about you, but I'm thinking of going on an all-berry diet. Okay, not really.

But man!

It seems like every other day strawberries and/or blueberries and/or blackberries are in the news because some expert-type people discovered yet another antioxidant-related magical power.

Today in miraculous berry power news: Apparently eating blueberries and strawberries can the prevent the "cognitive decline and memory loss that comes with aging."

Well, these are truly happy tidings, my friends. Because I am sooo sick of losing my keys. And I'm still in my 30's! I better start pounding the berries asap or I'm not going to remember my own name by the time I'm 50.