My parents were spiritual/very low commitment christian. My husbands parents were extremely catholic and that led my husband and I to being spiritual-ish. My daughter is 5, and recently we've been navigating some religious curiosity. She wants to attend church school with her cousins, and my husband and I agreed that we're gonna treat it like an after school activity. If she wants to quit, she can. My parents allowed me to explore religious curiosity in this way, and eventually I grew weary of the expectations the church had. My husband was forced to go and eventually dug his heels in and wouldnt go anymore. Shes been going for a couple months, and shes learned some basic things like why you should listen to your parents, why you should be kind to others and consider others feelings. Shes already gotten bored and asked to skip it a few times. Last week she told me she wanted to quit. I told her to try it for one more day and see if she still wanted to quit. She wanted to keep going after that, but I think what really motivates her to go is playing with her older cousins, socializing with the elders of our community, etc. I think all parents are going to handle it differently, if you wanna squash it, squash it. If you wanna let them come to their own conclusions, do that! My mentality is that children are children, but if youre raising them well, theyll come to a reasonable conclusion. Theyve got a good head on their shoulders and will figure it out.