Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Insasmuch as ye did not unto the least of these, you did it not unto me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
Children are an extension of God in the family home, while being the "least of these" deserving of society's love and care. The Greek root word for gratitude in the negative refers to entitlement, and is the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to, as a literal moral crime, wanting things from or of a child to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child. Ultimately, this translates to not wanting things from children.
Proper gratitude for children leads to charity, meaning bondservice and righteous enslavement to the child's every need, in the form of mutual surrender. It says 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 be discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is ὑπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to warm trust for parents, just as adult believers warmly trust in Jesus. Replace "obey" with "trust" and you get a more proper translation. It is a state of gratitude for parents, which parents earn by surrendering to a child's petitions for needs and a redress of grievances. Parents should be their child's best friend, and closest confidant, with children being able to tell parents everything. This first requires parents to be grateful for children, in a reverent way that allows them to serve and attend to their child, submitting to their child dutifully and selflessly from above, leading to complete and total acceptance of children. Children show gratitude for a parent's submission by being close to parents amidst maternal warmth. Children in ancient Israel and adjoining churches went around in the nude, and that was because they usually snuggled up to mothers in skin-to-skin closeness, bonding with their mothers at a low, sustaining level, with mothers and fathers both being attendant to the child's needs and benign wants, with mothers up close to the child, and fathers encouraging from afar.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to "stirring up" upset and resentment in children, as in the Jewish adage of "stirring the pot" regarding a child's emotional welfare. This refers to provocations to anger against a child, namely offenses against children, defined as the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement, with this including the physical or other punishment of a child. The Apostle Paul here was rebuking Greek Christian parents who followed the Hellenistic tradition of spanking. Greco-Roman society allowed for the physical punishment of children by law and by custom, whereas Paul would have none of it, and neither would the Jewish predecessors of the Christian church.
Gratitude is the ultimate consequence of non-entitlement as a parent. It is happiness without wanting anything more from a child, if you are a parent. Christian love (GRK: αγαπαο) is the conviction of a parent out of reverent fear and terror, leading to total submission to a child as their enemy, expecting absolutely nothing in return from children. Gratitude is being satisfied with your child in the moment, not wanting them to grow up or grow wiser, totally accepting them in the here and now, out of selfless and dutiful submission to the every need of a child, knowing oneself as an enemy of theirs, presuming ignorance in their affairs, for I as a flawed and entitled adult no longer know what it is like to be a child. Only they can tell us, and society is silencing them.
The depraved and entitled parent ingrates who hate their children and punish them will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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