In the article the problem of the formation of empathic attitudes in primary school means NLP - metaphor for metaphor can serve as a swarm - a direct analogy, history, personal experience, the parable, anecdote, proverbs, legends, fairy tales. Emphasizes the efficiency of the use of simple and complex metaphors as a means invigorated resource mechanisms of age when working with children. A distinction between literary and therapeutic metaphor, the main function of which is to dive into the world of a child, educators created by God. Emphasis on the need to form a tripartite em-pathic relationship between the child, the teacher and the narrative that allows the child is to identify with its characters and events. Underlines that one of the purposes of the metaphor in the therapeutic process of NLP is to gather information about the child to understand his world map, to find out the problems. States that the metaphor can serve as primary school children and speech, when he invests his experience in verbal expression.