Rule from beneath: Why parents must submit to their children

Many parents believe in ruling their own homes, and ruling their children as well. American society today views parents as authority figures. However, the Bible depicts parents in an entirely different light, meaning parents merely serve their children, and aren't the ultimate authority that they think they are.

Actual biblical parenting is attachment-based, and is similar to that which is recommended for autism parents, with the recommendation due to the strong counterwill of children with autism. Children with autism don't take orders, but give orders to parents. This is what attachment parenting is at the core, in fact, but is not autism-specific, and is based on the premise that being your child's friend isn't a need exclusive to children with autism, but instead all children equally.

The Fifth Commandment is repeated in full in 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 become discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to providing custody, or secure, vulnerable rest and trust in parents, to the point in seeing parents as safe people to bear the brunt of the child's every demand, with parents supplying the every said demand of children, with children feeling safe saying and doing anything in relation to parents, playing their way or no way at all, with children owing nothing in return to parents, and parents deserving nothing in return from parents, yet nonetheless with children showing gratitude and thanksgiving for the generosity and charity of parents by emulating the example and momentary teaching of parents. Children were technically submissive to parents, but had a lot of influence nonetheless, and were outspoken about their needs and rights. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and literally translates to "stirring up" anger or resentment in children, referring to the Jewish adage of "stirring the pot" in terms of your child's emotions, literally literally referring to the offenses under the Law, meaning the torts and damages system under the Eighth Commandment, namely assault and battery laws that extended to children in terms of protection. There was no such concept as "reasonable force" under the Law for minor children, and only within a courtroom setting for adult children, usually for murder or child abuse offenses.

Children in the biblical context were outspoken about their needs and rights, meaning parents were beholden to their children. Children technically were under the care of their parents, but they were given a lot of say as to what they needed and how they wanted their needs implemented, meaning children ruled their parents from beneath, demanding their needs, with parents supplying them. Children up to age 3 were seen as infants, and were swaddled next to their mother or to her bosom, or else strapped to her back in a papoose bag. How to replicate this today? Greco. Yes, think the old stereotype of having your own hi-chair. 

That's just the beginning. Greco makes papoose bags, or babywear. They only make them for babies, but that alone is following the spirit of the Law. Children slept next to their mother up until adulthood in ancient Israel and adjoining churches, with children having absolute freedom to play as long as it was within mother's line of sight. Fathers also played a role in encouraging spiritual and academic growth by homeschooling children. Ultimately, children got what they wanted in biblical times unless it was harmful, immoral, or not available, with benign wants being treated as a need.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn and suffer in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, descending downwards for ever and ever, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!