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Abstract: The article characterizes the conception of Auguste Comte who once compared the formation of the person’s world outlook with the stages of development of scientific cognition and periods of civil history and singled out three stages (theological, metaphysical and positive) of development of the world outlook. First, the same as the primitive man, the child does not distinguish himself from the surrounding world but identifies it with himself, personifies it and establishes strong connections with it. The next stage is the period of formation of religious (united by Comte with philosophical and called metaphysical) world outlook. Then comes the period of rationalization; the child is connected with religion by the fact that he begins learn the forms of social organization, which are ritual in their essence and are supported by tradition. The article specifies the necessity of parental support and special attention to the questions of faith at the period when children’s faith turns to a different “object” – knowledge (“knowledge faith”) and will (self-motivation).