Bypassing the divine themes, without knowing it, you take away from the child the opportunity to learn about the cultural and spiritual experience that mankind has accumulated over all periods of its existence.
You must remember that the child's faith is based on the trust of the child to any person. The kid begins to believe in God, only because he believes in his mother, father or grandmother with his grandfather. It is on this trust that the child's own faith is based, and from this faith his own spiritual life, the basic basis for any faith, begins.
Apparently, faith plays an important role in the life of each person, but it is important to lay its foundation in early childhood. Therefore, we want to submit several rules, how to tell the children about God.
1. Beginning your story to the children of God, do not try to cheat or do something unsaid. Children are very perceptive by their very nature, so they will immediately feel the falsity in your speech, which will hamper his personal development and further confidence in you. We advise you not to hide your attitude to the topic of religion. Negatively, it can also affect the child's excessive compulsion to believe or to decisive atheism. In this conversation, avoid categorical. Just try to give the child everything that you own and which canons you follow.
2. Regardless of your belief in confession or full atheism, explain to the children that there are no bad or good religions. In this case, be tolerant and uncategorical, while telling about other faiths. Dityo should not feel that you are persuading him in anything. The choice of faith or atheism - the will of a person personally, even if he is very small.
3. In your story, you must tell us that God created people for happiness and, most importantly, in his teaching: to love one another. If you have a Bible in your house, tell the children that her God wrote through her disciples, the prophets. In this book, he outlined the rules that must be followed throughout life. Read the Ten Commandments, and ask how he understands them, in case of difficulty, help him. Understanding the commandments will help to form the moral side of the child. This information can be started to be presented to the child from the age of 4-5. But it should be remembered that in this age period, children are very sensitive to metaphysical ideas. The child surprisingly easily perceives all kinds of ideas of the existence of God. At that time, children's interest is of an objective nature.
4. The next thing you have to tell the children: God is everywhere and nowhere, in his power to know and do everything. This information to children about God, is well received at the age of 5-7 years. At this time they are interested in the questions, where he was before his mother gave birth to him, and where people leave after death. Children can believe in the existence of metaphysical concepts and actively imagine them.
5. At the age of 7 to 11 years, children are ready to perceive the meaning and mystery of religious norms and rites. You can take your child with you when you go to church, where he can visually see and remember everything you said. Tell us why people keep fasting before Easter, with what this holiday is connected. It will also be useful to tell the children about Christmas and the angels who accompany. In general, it is believed that children at this age most easily perceive stories about Jesus Christ, about evangelical narrations, about the worship of the Magi, about Christ's childhood, about the meeting of the Child with the elder Semion, about His miracles, about the flight to Egypt, about the blessing of children and healing. patients. In case parents do not have paintings with illustrations on the holy letter or icons in the house, you can offer your child to draw such illustrations themselves, so he can more realistically perceive your stories. Also you can buy a children's Bible, it is specially adapted for the smallest religious scholars.
You can tell how the people who were going to listen to Jesus Christ were hungry, and nothing could be found and bought, but only one little boy came to help Him.
There are a lot of similar stories. You can tell them at a set time, for example, before going to bed, to present an illustration, or simply "when it comes to a word". But, truth, for this it is necessary that a person who knows at least the most important evangelical stories is present in the family. It is best, of course, for young parents to study the Gospel by themselves, looking for such stories in it that will be interesting and understandable for their little children.
6. At the beginning of the adolescent period, from 10 years, and for some from 15 years, the children's consciousness is ready to understand the spiritual content of any religion. It is the teenager who is already able to understand that God is a just creation, and loves everyone, regardless of his way of life and state of mind. God exists outside the concept of time and space, he is always and everywhere. To help you to tell this information to children, ask for help from the works of Russian classics: Chukovsky, KI, Tolstoy, L. N, who, in an understandable and interesting form for children, reproduced the main themes and ideas of the Holy Scripture.
7. Much important, it remains to teach the child to turn to God. Learn with him the basic prayers "Our Father", "Saints of Relief", etc. As we know, prayer has psychological influence and significance, it teaches skills of reflection, stimulates to summarize the past day. In addition, prayer leads to the realization of one's feelings, desires, emotions, gives hope and confidence in the future.
A child, knowing about God and religion in general, can consciously do something, while he can share good and evil, feel a sense of repentance and regret. He can turn to God for help at a difficult moment for him.
Finally, children become able to think about nature and its laws, about the environment around us.
In this decisive moment for the development of the child, the basic foundations of his worldview are laid. It is from what will be put into the child's consciousness in his teenage development that his further faith, not only in God, but also in parents, educators and the society as a whole, depends.