Many parents abuse a child. The most common abuse setup in the United States is time-out or grounding, and then the occasional disciplinary spanking done "out of love". However, the fact of the matter is that time-in is the way to deal with a crying child, and the biblical way of doing time-in is mammary closeness.
The concept of mammary closeness is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, with the burden of proof falling squarely onto the parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and submission of parents. This word ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children just as they would to God, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return. See also Matt. 22:35-40, 25:31-46.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and was understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including, but not limited to, any punishments, reprimands, or other controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents wrre put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. The parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law in order to convict a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child in his secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and even took in a few orphaned children during his time as a deacon.
Time-in can be done in many different ways. Some parents kneel down to their children when the child is upset. Other parents send their children to a calming corner. However, there is one biblical way to do time-in, and that involves mammary closeness. Whenever children cried, mothers picked up their children, and then gently held the child next to her bosom in mammary closeness.
Part of mammary closeness is breastfeeding, meaning when a child was crying, mothers offered her teat in order to soothe the child to sleep. Whenever children latched onto the teat of mothers, they needed mom's milk. Children were breastfed to sleep whenever and wherever they needed, meaning even in public. When children rejected the teat of mothers, children were deemed ready for solid food.
Mammary closeness was done even when mothers and children under age 6 were out and about in public, with this mammary closeness coming in the form of children being held next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. The swaddling blankets - and the child with them - were tucked underneath the loose-fitting, revealing dress worn by mothers that resembled an apron. From there, the swaddling blankets were tied from the left breast, and then across the dot to the right leg of the mother, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. When children swaddled in the bosom of mothers cried, they were held even closer to mom's bosom, and possibly were breastfed to sleep. The swaddling blankets then were made of velvet, which was grown throughout the Ancient Middle East.
The breasts of a woman were not primarily designed as something for men to sexualize. Instead, the female breasts are there for women to nurture their children. Whenever you as a mother try to co-snuggle your child next to your bosom in mammary closeness, you will simply regret not doing it sooner. The breasts of mothers were meant for warm nurturing, with mother and child co-snuggling in total bliss!
The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast forever into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!