From the author: This is a continuation of the article “How to talk to your child about magic.” I provide a link to the first part below. This publication is part of a program for developing a value system, a positive image of the future and constructive goal setting, which was first published by me and co-author T.D. Zinkevich-Evstigneeva in the magazine "School Psychologist" in 2003. Part 1. Part 2. Have you thought about how powerful magicians and wizards become? Perhaps from the outside it seems to you that it is enough to find a magic ball or a magic wand, touch it, make a beautiful wave of your hands, cast a spell, and at that moment wonderful magic and incredible transformations will happen. You could see this in various films about wizards. I hope that you watched the film about Harry Potter, and remember that there, each wizard who lived in the Castle had his own special magic wand and it was not very easy to learn how to use it. In the world of fairy tales and magic, magic and magical objects they create incredible things, and in our present, real world, these wonderful transformations are created by our skills, knowledge, feelings, thoughts and, of course, hands. Are you surprised, don’t believe, don’t understand how this happens? Don’t be surprised, but let’s imagine for a while how your beloved grandmother or mother prepares a delicious, golden-brown pie with a sweet berry filling. So, she puts flour, eggs, sugar, milk and other products on the table that are necessary to make your favorite pie. Knowing the secret recipe and cooking rules, she combines all the products, mixes them and prepares the dough. And if we translate all this into the language of wizards, mother or grandmother turns flour, sugar, butter, yeast, milk into dough. She knows how and how long it takes to bake a berry pie in the oven, how to make it beautiful and appetizing, and what kind of dishes to serve it on. Now imagine that you are not familiar with and have never seen the procedure for making berry pie in your life. pirogue. Your mother shows you a bowl of flour, a bottle of milk, eggs, sugar, butter, berries, picks up her beautiful magic wand and says: “Now, believe it or not, I can use a magic wand and a magic spell to transform all these wonderful products into a pie with berry filling, which will have no equal in taste and beauty.” If you think and are sure that there is no magic in real life and it is only fiction, then you will most likely say: “I don’t believe in it!” However, if you still admit the idea that miracles and magic are possible both in real life and in reality, you will say in response: “I believe!” “Great,” she will say, “it takes some time for the magic to happen. While you have time for your activities, you can chat with friends in the yard or read a book or play, and when the time comes, I will let you know.” There comes a time when your grandmother or mother invites you. She holds a magic wand in her hands, and on the table nearby there is something hidden from view with a beautiful towel. She makes a beautiful wave of the hand in which the magic wand is located, touches the towel with which something is covered and says: “A wonderful magic has happened! The transformation of food into a sweet pie has happened!” You approach the table, take off the towel and see a beautiful, aromatic berry pie in front of you. Thus, it turns out that your mother or grandmother is a sorceress! But please tell me what helps her perform miracles and magical transformations: magical objects or her knowledge, skills, love? Of course, this is her knowledge of the recipe for making a pie, the ability to mix everything correctly and her great love for you. It turns out that the wonderful property of transforming one thing into another exists in our lives, in the real world. You know, because you have it too. For example, you can use paints or felt-tip pens to turn an absolutely blank sheet of white paper into a beautiful, fairy-tale drawing. Or yours.