Why co-sleeping is crucial to proper biblical parenting

Many parents believe that co-sleeping is bad for children past infancy. This is a common belief among many, if not most parents, in the United States, eschew co-sleeping, sexualizing the aspect of attachment parenting (AP). Biblical parents, in reality, engaged in co-sleeping.

It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things, as this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to rest and trust in the love and grace of parents, just as adult believers rest and trust in Lord Jesus Christ. Replace "obey" and "trust" and you get roughly the same translation. This trust is borne out maternal warmth and sustenance, meaning secure, warm attachment to parents. This includes co-sleeping, meaning co-sleeping in the nude at night was the key to children trusting in their parents in biblical times, and honoring and cooperating with them later on, with all respect for parents being from closeness of some sort. Christian mothers in particular engaged in intense skin-to-skin closeness with their children, meaning cuddling and snuggling with the children while laying down. This also includes the child being able to talk to parents about anything without being punished or controlled. If the child does not want to sleep with mom, he or she doesn't have to, and can sleep with dad instead, or else sleep on their own.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to a provocation to anger under the Law against a child, meaning offenses against children, as defined as the slightest of offense perceived by a child. This ban included the and now punishment and control of children, including corporal punishment of children. The Apostle Paul here was rebuking Greek Christian parents for bringing the idolatrous Greco-Roman tradition of spanking children. Corporal punishment and other forms of punishment of children was a firm tradition in Greco-Roman pagan culture, and legally excused under the Roman legal defense of patrias potestas or "power to the father". The Early Christian church and their Jewish predecessors did not recognize the parental rights defense. Corporal punishment only existed in the Bible as a sentence for crime, and only adult children could stand trial in their defense for a criminal act - children were excused under the defense of infancy. Christ abolished the death penalty and all corporal punishment by enduring such when being crucified.

Co-sleeping is the oldest parenting trick in the book. It predates spanking by a Millennia. Intense closeness with mother was the key way that parents earned their trust from their children. Children in biblical times snuggled with their mothers until adulthood, and were breastfed as infants until age 3. Parents today don't have to go to these extremes, but co-sleeping should be the core of any attachment parenting regimen, from birth to 30 and beyond, as long as they are living at home they are eligible for that kind of closeness now and then (the clothed type, of course). If you are close and warm to young children in the nude, up until adolescence, they will be very self-reliant teenagers who do not rely on punishment as a gauge of morality, but only God's Law.

The depraved and entitled parents 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! Let them descend in the Hell of fire and torment, with God imposing His Wrath upon evildoing parents, always angry at a fallen world that hates children! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!