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"This book was written for young children to help them understand why mommy or daddy has to go away for an extended time to a treatment center to ""get better."" This can seem like a difficult conversation to have with a 3-6-year old. Children of this age may not understand why their parent is going away and can be confused and even frightened. In many cases, they may know on some level that there is something going on, and often a simple explanation will suffice, that mommy or daddy is going away for a while to get better and that they will return soon. Explaining to a child that they will be safe and taken care of while their parent is gone will help them feel confident in this new change in their life. In this book, Spook's mommy is going to a treatment center so she can get better and doesn't have to drink her strange milk anymore. Parents going into treatment will also benefit by sharing this book with their 3-6-year old, opening up communication and making the explanation easier."

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Kandace Marugg is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor in Minnesota. As a child of alcoholic parents, along with her little brother, she lost her father to a drug overdose and was taken away from her mother, who was also an addict. She grew up with her grandparents, but later lost her mother to a heroin overdose. Kandace pledged to become an alcohol and drug counselor to help put families back together. Kandace started her counseling journey in Washington State and worked at an intensive outpatient treatment facility for two and a half years. When her fianc�'s job required them to relocate, they traveled to Minnesota and she began counseling men at inpatient facilities in Waverly and Elk River, but later found her counseling home at a residential facility for women in St. Paul. The women she counseled were worried because their children were too young to understand what was going on and why their parent had gone into treatment. Then, driving home from work one day, a story idea came to her and Kandace was inspired to write this book. The main character is actually based on her real-life cat named Spooks.

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