Why attachment parenting is proper Christian parenting

Many parents use the Bible as an excuse for abusing children, including through spanking and corporal punishment. Many parents think biblical times were harsh for children. The fact of the matter is that attachment parenting was the norm in ancient Israel and adjoining churches.

Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTUCTION merely for existing in relation to children, and is to be meek and shamefaced in relation to children, prioritizing the child's needs first, and your own last, to the point of surrender and submission to the every need and benign want of children, as their enemy, knowing nothing ever again about what it is like to be a child, with children resting in the unconditional Christian love and grace of parents. Parents sacrifice for children in the spirit that Christ sacrificed for His children. 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.

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 children up until adulthood wrapped up in swaddling blankets next to mothers, with children being weaned from breastmilk at age 3, and with older children playing outside in the supervision of Christian mothers by day, then retreating to the rest and respite of mothers by night, co-sleeping next to parents right up until adulthood, feeling safe and secure in relation to parents.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to provocations to anger against children, as defined as the slightest of personal offenses perceived by the child. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul and the legal context in which he was writing from as prohibiting all punitive parenting, meaning any punishment or control in parenting. The Apostle Paul was rebuking here Greek Christians who were misusing the book of Proverbs as a justification for their pagan ritual of spanking children to "make them chaste". The "rod verses" in Proverbs, meaning all seven of them, are repealed verses, as they refer to a dated legal punishment - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction. A minor child could not be charged with a criminal offense or civil wrong. The Early Church did not allow for corporal punishment of any kind, as Christ was believed to have abolished both capitial and corporal punishment on the cross.

Attachment parenting was the norm in ancient Hebrew and Christian societies alike. Parents in ancient Israel and adjoining churches were a safe place for children to let out all their energy, and be rambunctious in their playfulness. Children were very quiet and self-controlled when in public, many times sedated while in mother's arms or else wrapped to her back. Parents allowed most all play except play that would lead to overt sex acts, as children then were sexually aware at an early age. Mant games children played in ancient Judeo-Christian society had sexual undertones. Children then did not wear clothing until adulthood, meaning they went completely in the nude, and the girls may have flirted a bit with the boys - but that was as far as it was allowed to go. Hebrew and (especially) Christian parents believed in sexual purity, thus wanted to avoid an incursion on their daughter's virginity.

The context in this article can be applied today, to the degree that the individual parent or set of parents can apply. Children obviously should be clothed in public, at least visibly. But, children should not be forced to wear clothing indoors, and neither should they be forced to wear undergarments. If a pedophile or other adult attracted to children likes them, that's their issue to deal with - and many Hebrew and Christian fathers were attracted to their children, especially as they got older, but at a low level that didn't involve any children with the attraction (the accepted parenting advice was to indulge in child fantasy!). Nudity is not sex, as people can be naked for various different reasons. We sexualize it due to our flawed human nature, but some of us men can refrain from sexual relations even when seeing full frontal nudity of a woman with ease.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, whsich is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! There is a grand investigation to find Satan and put him in his tomb, but we must sweep up all his accomplices first, which is anyone that hates Christ, hates God, and sins against him. Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!