The role of cognitive ability of sickly over-fives in the formation of ideas about orthobiosis

The paper discusses the importance of the problem of a healthy lifestyle (orthobiosis) and the problems of sickly children. It considers a special social situation of a sickly child’s develoment. The paper presents the research results on the role of sickly over-fives’ cognitive ability (by the example of the understanding of the phenomenon of deception) in the formation of ideas about orthobiosis. Besides, it describes the influence of socio-psychological characteristics of the family and the types of mothering on children’s orthobiosis.