This Halloween, 5-year-old Dylan Warren is going to be Anakin Skywalker from "Star Wars." The kindergartner in Rumson, New Jersey, likes Halloween candy, but he knows he'll have to follow his mother's rules about how much he can have.
"My mom doesn't like me to eat it," Dylan told CNN this week.
Swati Rajmane-Warren, Dylan's mother, tells her children that they shouldn't eat too much candy, because it's bad for their teeth -- and generally, the line works, she said.
Meera Garcia, a physician in Atlanta, Georgia, also regulates the amount of candy her daughters, Violet and Chloe, take in for Halloween because she's concerned about their teeth.
"It's more candy than probably a child should eat in a whole year," she said. "You don't want to be a mean parent and 'no, you can't eat all the candy.' But you can just imagine what they're doing to their appetites, their diet and their teeth." 
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