ds has just started in YR at the local village school - which is a VC C of E school. DH and I do not have any religion and although ds has an idea of god he says that he doesn't believe (fair enough - he says "we don't believe in god" and I say "well I don't but you can make your own mind up when you are older", but I appreciate he is a bit young for that concept).
Anyway, he has started saying prayers and singing hymms at home (when we sit down to eat he occasionally says "for what we are about to recieve...", and yesterday was singing "we've got the whole world in our hands").
I don't have any problem with this, to me the hymms are just songs and it is nice to be thankful for the fact we have food.
BUT he then asks me what these things mean, or with reference to the whole wide world song said it was silly and a man couldn't hold the world in his hand could he?
I have then been explaining that they are prayers to god, or songs about god, and explaining the concepts behind them.
THEN ds gets arsy and says he isn't going to say them or isn't going to sing them because he doesn't believe in god. Which I don't think is a good thing at 5.
Any idea on how to approach this?