Personally I think parents and the church could do a much better job at teaching children about Christianity. At least in my experiences, I knew the stories about how so-and-so did something good and received good. I knew the stories about how what's-his-name did something bad and received bad. Essentially, I could tell you the morality of Christianity, heaven was good, and hell was bad. I do not like this.
I don't know if I simply was not taught well or if God had not opened my heart to him just yet, but I missed something major along the way. I could recite the "ABC's of becoming a Christian" but couldn't tell you what it meant to follow Christ. I could tell you by doing bad you would go to hell but didn't realize we all deserve that just punishment. I didn't understand what it meant to rejoice in God's grace. I knew about morality by obligation but not being holy as God is holy. The God I learned about was one who sent bad people to hell and good people to heaven. I knew about being a good though hypocritical person but not about being a transparent though repentant person.
I say all of that to say this, there are good and bad ways to teach a child about Christ. In my experiences, those who tried to teach me did so with great intentions but I took the wrong message (as I said earlier, whether that was my fault or theirs, I can't say I know for certain).
There are two major ways of teaching a child about Christianity, by teaching religion and by teaching Jesus. The latter is a much better option, the option I will use when teaching my own children one day.
To address the OP more clearly, I support both teaching a child about the faith (as Scripture puts it, "In the ways that you'd have them to go.") but doing so in such a way that the child has a choice. As an example of this, I plan to teach my children about various religions and beliefs but I am also going to express how I feel about those various beliefs. Heck, this is how I go about teaching my Bible study and Sunday School classes. Whomever listens to me has the choice to obey or disobey.
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