Let's set aside extended breastfeeding while on Twitter/Facebook/Time for a moment and jump on something else that gets a lot of moms fired up: Toxic chemicals freakin' everywhere. There's a Stroller Brigade rolling through Washington, DC tomorrow, and they want a safer world for themselves and their children.

The Stroller Brigade is a protest group made up of moms, cancer survivors, nurses, and others who are rallying support for Senator Frank Lautenberg’s (D-NJ) Safe Chemicals Act. That's the bill that would update our country's ridonkulously outdated toxic chemical laws. Mamas be outraged when they read an expose on the chemical industry's corrupt ways.

Go mamas! But do they stand a chance?

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. 

Imagine being the proud, doting parent of two adorable baby girl twins. You're also a well-known artist and photographer. So, you get in the bathtub with your babies, take a  photo, show it off on Facebook and, why yes, then you are arrested for raping your children. This is the nightmare that happened to famed photographer Paul Rusconi, who has his photos in museums all over the world, and who has photographed celebrities like Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Tyra Banks, and even President Obama.

It's really difficult to believe this happened, but it did. Rusconi was accused of raping his 20-month-old girls after a nanny, who was a distant relative, and her husband, saw the photos. There was no other evidence. Rusconi was arrested, spent the night in jail, was released on a $220,000 bond. And, oh yeah, his girls were given to his accusers. Ey, yi, yi!

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.

Everybody loves a chubby toddler. I'm not kidding, either. A study shows moms prefer pump toddlers. And, well, yeah! That's what I've always preferred, too. I remember when my son was around two -- he was kind of a skinny little guy and I worried about him because he didn't have that Stay Puft Marshmallow Man look I saw on other children.

But when I brought it up with our pediatrician she just shrugged it off. My son was perfectly healthy, not wasting away. In fact, that chubby toddler ideal is actually not so healthy after all!

Just when you think it can't get worse than grandparents tying their granddaughter's toy car to the back of their SUV with a dog leash and taking her for a spin, Aaron Stefanski and Jessica Clark may have bested them when it comes to outrageous joyrides with kids. And by bested, I mean they've done something even more horrifically unthinkable and dangerous.

The adventure started, not so surprisingly, at a liquor store yesterday -- Belmont Beverage in Fort Wayne, Ind. Witnesses say they saw the car leave the parking lot with four children (ages 4-7), not just not secured in car seats (which would be bad enough), but instead strapped to the hood of the car.

Then the car took off down the road.

So. I'm probably pretty safe in saying we all agree it's a bad idea to let your toddler eat dog food, right? We're all on the same page about this. Toddlers + dog food = NO. Yes?

Okay, good. Because if there's anyone out there not yet convinced that you shouldn't let your kids eat dog food, here's a pretty compelling reason: Salmonella. Last week tainted dog food sickened 14 people. Not dogs. People.

You will be relieved to hear they were not poisoned from actually eating that dog food. Not most of them, anyway. And not on purpose.

Do the words "screen-free week" send shivers of utter horror down your very spine? Hello, friend! Pull up a chair over here at the Lazy Moms Anonymous table!

Don't get me wrong -- I truly respect and admire the parents I know who are somehow managing to raise their kids without the aid of on-call entertainment.

As for me?

I'm a far-from-perfect parent in many ways and for many reasons, not the least of which is my approach to limiting screen time: I don't.

Never have. My (probably brain-damaged by now) children's fate was sealed that fateful day when my daughter, then a fussy, wailing infant, was miraculously silenced by the sight of the baby-faced sun on the Teletubbies. Time for Teletubbies, indeed! I was tired. I was desperate. TV not recommended for kids under the age of 2?

You can take your recommendations and stick 'em where that baby-faced sun don't shine, American Academy of Pediatrics.