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To tell a child about his/her adoption or not?

It's a rather difficult question for adopters to tell their child about his or her adoption. But psychologists say it's necessary to tell about it. The best time to tell an adopted child about the adoption is at the age between two and four. At this age children dont need a lot of details because they dont fully understand the situation.
What is the best way to tell the child about his/her adoption?
We have found an interesting idea how to tell the child about his/her adoption in the book An adopted child has joined the class by the Russian psychologist Liudmila Petranovskaya. She says, Almost all heroes of fairy-tails are adopted children whose parents got them by unusual method. Weve found some of them:

- Kolobok (Roly-Poly) a baked roll, the character of a Russian nursery tale;

- Thumbelina a girl from the flower, the character of a Danish fairy-tale written by Hans Christian Andersen;

- Pinocchio a revive wooden boy, the character of an Italian fairy-tale written by Carlo Collodi;

- Snegurochka a snow girl, the character of a Russian opera composed by Nikolay Rimski-Korsakov;

- Tom Thumb a tiny-little boy appeared in the handkerchief, the character of an English nursery tale;

- Cheburashka a little creature appeared in the box with oranges, the character of a Russian cartoon.

Liudmila Petranovskaya has worked for seven years in one of the Moscow childrens homes and knows all the problems connected with adopted children very well. She is a family psychologist. Her main work is to set up children in families, to find for these children their own home, parents and normal life.
Liudmila Petranovskaya is the prizewinner of President of the Russian Federation in the field of education.