Monday, June 21, 2021

Why not to shame a child's choice of garb

A common association with gentle parenting is child nudity, and there is intersection between the two. Usually, in our society, children aren't naked except in private, but may wear showy attire to impress either peers or adults...and that's the only reason why they do it. 

Many parents like to police especially the dress of their daughters. This comes in different levels of severity. Think the father with a gun, keeping his daughter "safe". Why the quotation marks? Some of those fathers might rape and sexually assault the child. As for me as a father? She can dress however she wants, and I'll just have to deal with it. Quite an easy chore. No complaint, if I'm attracted to her.

The Tenth Commandment prohibits coveting and entitlement, and said commandment is repeated by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektes) and refers to wanting a child to dress a certain way, to the point of enforcing said "dress code" on a child, leading to theft/abuse, as stated explicitly in Colossians 3:21 KJV: 
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 literally to stirring up children, but literally literally to the offenses under the Law, as transported to our modern lives in the New Testament as the slightest of personal slights imposed by a child. Taking false offense, however, is an offense in and of itself, if you get offended in a way that is pushy or manipulative.

You might get offended, naturally and viscerally, by a girl in 5th grade wearing a tank top and short shorts, and no undergarments, and you can just tell by the contours. But, you don't complain, as that is a bad way to feel about a child, meaning it is entitlement. Looking at a child is abuse when they perceive it as abuse, or if you form the intent to police their dress, even if that policing is sideways, meaning through gossip.  

Let the sexually entitled parents burn in the lake of fire and brimstone, suffering the second death! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

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