Most parents in the United States believe in child surrender, but believe it involves punishing children to "keep them in line". The fact of the matter is that parents are to love their children unconditionally, and children are to rest in that love.
Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTRUCTION merely for existing in relation to children, with parents/adults being meek and shamefaced in relation to children. Parents especially are to put their child's needs first, and their own needs last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every need, expecting absolutely nothing in return, as this is unconditional Christian love αγαπαο (Latin: agapao). Children should be allowed to rest, with parents providing care and protection from above. See 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.
This passage deals with the role of children in a parent-child relationship. The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Attachment parenting was the norm in biblical times, with mothers wrapping up their children next to their bosom in swaddling blankets, with children being held close to mothers in skin-to-skin closeness. Closeness was the most common short-term goal in ancient Hebrew and Christian parents. Children were usually weaned by age 3, and remained in a constant state of closeness until age 6 with parents. Children older than age 6 played freely with adult supervision intermittently while running to parents for comfort otherwise. Child surrender involved surrendering oneself into the loving arms of parents, resting in God's loving grace.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to provocations to anger against children, referring to the Eighth and Tenth Commandments. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul and the surrounding legal context to prohibit all punishment and control in parenting. Paul, here, was rebuking Greek Christians on their misuse of the book of Proverbs to justify their custom of spanking children. The seven verses in Proverbs that deal with the rod of correction are repealed verses, as they depict a specific, dated form of judicial corporal punishment unique culturally and legally to the Old Testament - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, which was for ADULT children of Hebrew parents. Children could never be charged with a moral crime due to a defense of infancy. This punishment is also mentioned in Hebrews 12:5-11, but only as a figurative statement about enduring hardship. The rod of correction was not in use in the Early Church. In the case of minor children causing mischief, parents simply apologized in court.
Child surrender is a state of rest in the secure attachment of parents. The secure attachment recommended by the context of the Bible is policing attachment, where children figuratively extend a stophand and order their parents around,, and then they get most of what they want. Then, at the end of the day, they rest in closeness to parents, with mothers especially sleeping next to children, holding her children close in skin-to-skin intimacy. Child surrender is a state of rest and respite, with love and providence showering over the child, with the child held in high esteem even over the parent themselves. Usually, these worldly duties of parents make them silent and shamefaced in relation to children, with children striking up conversation about what they want to talk about, and then talking their parents' ear off. Parents sacrifice and love their children, and children rest in that love, owing nothing to their parents whatsoever in return.
The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! There is a grand investigation about, and if you are not on the side of children, you are not on the side of God. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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