Many children in more fundamentalist Christian homes are taught about self-interest. I find it kind of foreign to my upbringing, which was more let them run free, but then punish them as a tethering tool so they don't go too far. I believe in the concept of self-interest, meaning self-interest is a gauge of entitlement. I do nor believe in zero self-interest. That means no right to self-defense, which is allowed under the acronym of pro-social bunker/hide/defend.
As an adult, I limit my self-interest towards children completely, to the level of speech. I am to shut up, and appear shamefaced when around a child, perhaps as a passerby. I am to have no self-interest in relation to her, apart from things I can accept a "no" from.
The Greek root word denoting entitlement in the New Testament is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to the attitude of "I am a good adult, and deserve things from children" leading to demanding, controlling, or spousifying behavior. Demands, as a parent, mean you have self-interest in the child doing something you want to do. With pedophiles, this can be in the form of interpretation of certain things such as showy attire in a child, and assuming that they want a certain treatment or that they will "take it" from you. It is simply thoughts on the level of stray afterthoughts of harming a child, but when it leads to considering the abuse of a child to be a real and acceptable possibility, in a way you would defend, you are guilty of the moral crime of entitlement, and when that leads to damages imposed upon the child, entitlement leading to theft.
It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:
Children, obey your parents in all things, as is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to legal damages, meaning the slightest of personal slights perceived by the child, imposed by an adult willfully or recklessly. The child has the unilateral right to impose self-interest on a parent, and the parent has the duty to impose zero self-interest in relation to children. All self-interest is separate from the child, except at the child's lawful command as a righteous judge imposed by God.
How am I with children, in terms of self-interest? I am completely segregated from their constituency, placed in Hell by God merely for being their persecutor. It is a shut up, stoic, stiffened expression, that the child loosens by "breaking the ice", easing you in with her speech, leading to productive conversation and interaction with a child, and then you feel comfortable with her and her only. The child has complete control over the thread, like a traffic cop, over the interaction. There is a clear peacekeeping line between parents and their children, with parents being lower for being higher than children, sacrificing for the needs of children just as Christ sacrificed for His children, sparing their children of violence, punishment, and control in the process.
Let the depraved and entitled parents BURN! Let them SUFFER! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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