ABSTRACT
Human beings face numerous potentially transformative experiences over the course of their lives. Personally transformative experiences (PTEs) can change a person in a variety of ways. PTE can impact a person's moral and intellectual character, including her beliefs, values, preferences, and dispositions. The likelihood that children will have to make decisions concerning PTE as well as undergo a variety of such experiences poses a problem for parents, namely, how to prepare them to do so in ways that will contribute to their flourishing. Parenthood can have a positive or negative in impact on the intellectual and moral virtue of parents, including their beliefs, desires, preferences, and dispositions. Parents are obligated to some degree to help their children develop, physically, intellectually, and morally. Christian parents should allow their children to learn about other comprehensive views and some of the standard objections to Christianity as is developmentally appropriate.
