Why co-sleeping is recommended in the Bible

Many parents think that co-sleeping is a bad idea. This is a common sentiment among parents, and a common mistake as well. The most common misconception about co-sleeping is that it causes "sleep dependence". Co-sleeping is actually crucial for a secure parent-child bond.

The centerpiece of an attached Christian parenting relationship is Christian love, as denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to prioritizing children first, and yourself as a parent last, in a convicted way leading to dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in parents. 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. This form of respect for parents does not come from fearful compliance, but instead comes from restful trust in parents, with children telling parents anything and everything that is on their minds, including admissions of wrongdoing and non-conforming traits, expecting absolutely no punishment or reprisal in return. In this loving and encouraging environment, children start to take after their parents, wanting to be like parents, leading to following the example of parents. This taking after parents doesn't happen overnight, but instead happens gradually, with children trying to be like parents, falling down, and getting back up, engaging in behaviors that are developmentally appropriate along the way, but often seen as "bad" by society. Children will eventually take after the example of parents later on, in young adulthood, as a way of giving back to parents.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or abuse, namely child abuse in this context. Child abuse, under biblical law, at minimum, is defined as the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child, coming from entitlement. In this commandment, the Apostle Paul was lifting up the Law against punishment and controlling demeanor towards children, rebuking Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking children into the church. Christian parents of Greek origin were misusing the book of Proverbs to justify their punishment habits even in the 1st Century, when this passage was recorded. Paul was warning parents that Proverbs is simply wisdom literature - a list of wise sayings - and not a parenting instruction manual. The rod verses in Proverbs have nothing to do with raising children, but refer to an ancient, archaic legal practice within Judaism, involving judicial corporal punishment of an ADULT child in the form of 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, with the father being subpoenaed to issue the blows - usually, the father was an uncooperative witness against his own son's legal misconduct. The Bible was willfully mistranslated into Latin from its original languages, by the Roman Catholic Church, to pander to the punitive parenting customs of European pagans. The British empire then spread the Anglo-Saxon custom of spanking children to the United States via the English common law.

Children, up until age 6, often refuse to go to bed on their own. This is a common behavior among children in American homes. The reason for this behavior is that children aren't ready to go to bed on their own until age 6 at the very earliest, and perhaps sometime later. Children need to be assured that they are being guarded against predators, both human and non-human in form. In biblical times, children had to worry about scorpions, snakes, and also fathers. Most sexual abuse takes place within a home environment, and all fathers have the capacity to commit sexual abuse against their own child, and children know this by way of primal instinct, and want mothers to protect them from the world that wants to prey on them. Based on this information, co-sleeping is a moral mandate between parents and children. Many a mother might have exposed a predator within their husband, leading to instant divorce - sexual predators find co-sleeping to be sexually threatening, in a way that makes it easy to expose entitlement in them just by sleeping next to her child.

Sleep dependence is something medical professionals such as doctors and practical nurses spread around as a rumor. All children who co-sleep with parents will shake off their parents at some point. With a child with developmental disabilities such as autism, mood disorders, and/or ADHD, that time might be later, such as around age 16 or so. There is limited research on sleep dependence, but if every co-sleeping parent was interviewed, one could easily bet that it worked out every time, and children shook off their parents, every time. Sleep dependence is a myth spread by the medical establishment that deters parents from using attachment parenting methods to get a child to sleep.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!