Heeding the advice of medical authorities, I took my 6 1/2 year old son to the pediatrician about a week before Halloween, to get him the flu vaccine early in the season. When I turned around after I checked in, I saw my son sneaking away from the lollipop bowl to "hide" some artificially dyed forbidden treats in his book bag. Not daring to increase his obsession with pretty sweet things by making it an emotionally charged issue, I took the occasion to joke about it with him. A few minutes later, my son received the flu mist in a chair located about two inches from a another bowl of Halloween...