How to order categories and subcategories

Hi ninjas,

I have one problem with my website, I cannot figure how to sort categories when I am querying them.

I use <?php the_category(' \ '); ?> to get the categories, but what wordpress seams to do it returns the categories alphabetically.

The thing is I have one parent category “inspiration” and a child category “art” lets say. When wordpress list it lists like art \ inspiration , but the thing is I always want the parent to go first than the child categories.

How should I do that?

Thanks,
M