From the author: Answers to questions in the newspaper "Saturday Plus" Children and religion You can start telling children about God when the child develops an active interest in the topic of life and death, at about 4-5 years old. gradually complicating the topics, touching on moral issues. What exactly you will tell depends on your religion. Many believing parents read the children's Bible to their children a little at a time from birth. The most important thing is that you yourself believe in what you are telling your children; it is better to convey your picture of the world than to be guided by a system that is alien to you. Adapt your beliefs into a fairy tale so that it is interesting and understandable for the child to listen to you. Instill in your child what you believe in. If you don’t regularly attend church yourself, what good will it do for your child? If you pray regularly, the child, looking at you, will also copy a little bit, first copy, and then pray more consciously. Be sure to talk about church holidays so that the child understood their meaning. There are days off throughout the country on several church holidays. Explain to your child the meaning of the holiday; additional knowledge will never hurt, but will contribute to a more conscious life in society. Children and sects Joining a sect indicates that the child lacks attention, love and support in the family. This usually happens during adolescence, when children are most sensitive and vulnerable. It seems to them (and sometimes this is really true) that they are not understood, their feelings are not respected, they are deliberately humiliated, they are trying to control them. During this period, support and unconditional love appear in the person of the sect. In this case, by sect we understand an organization that absorbs all the thoughts and feelings of a person, has many prohibitions and restrictions; upon entering such an organization, a person changes radically, ceases to have his own opinion, analyze, compare and think logically. Psychological and business are often called a sect. -trainings, yoga classes, astrology, raw food diet, vegetarianism and much more that does not always cause harm, but on the contrary, serves to form a mature and conscious personality. Step-by-step system of actions: 1) Be sure to go with your child to some event of his sects, preferably several times, if possible, communicate with the participants, preferably with the leaders. (Perhaps this is a club for people with similar interests). Nowadays there are a lot of psychological, esoteric and other clubs.2) Do not criticize the sect and its leaders in front of your child.3) Try to analyze your relationship with your child, maybe you will be able to remember the period from which you lost contact with your own child. It is necessary to develop a system for establishing interaction with him.4) It is necessary to spend as much time as possible with the child, and this should not be done intrusively. Come up with joint activities, remember everything that the child is interested in now or previously. Look for something that you could interest him in. This should be done slowly, so as not to aggravate the situation.5) It is advisable to contact a psychologist who has experience in “pulling” children out of the sect.