A fairy tale for children who do not want to study

Once upon a time there lived in one family a very kind and good boy named Vanya. More than anything, he couldn’t sit still and do anything calmly.

As soon as he starts drawing or coloring with his mother, or learning letters with syllables, Vanya immediately begins to say no, I don’t want, I won’t, he runs away and hides. Every time his mother gave him some task, Vanya ran away from him anywhere. And all this was because he was taken possession of by an evil witch known throughout the world. There was one such bad witch in the world named Restlessness, because of her the children did not want to sit and do one thing, draw or sculpt, write, paint, or even just listen to a fairy tale.

And then one day, Vanya was walking with his mother in the park. They sat down on a bench to eat ice cream and started talking about how when they came home Vanya and his mother would decorate and learn letters. Then Vanya began to shout loudly — NO, I DON’T WANT, NO I WILL NOT.

And an old man was sitting on a bench nearby. But he turned out to be not a simple old man, but a real good wizard. True, he was a good wizard only with hardworking and responsible children, but with children who shouted at their parents and said that they would not do anything, he was fair. And so he heard enough of Vanya talking about how he wouldn’t do anything, turned to them and said, “Well, hello Ivan, I’ve heard enough of yours, I don’t want to, I won’t, and because you want to be so lazy and don’t want to…