Parental entitlement: Why to avoid entitlement in being an adult in relation to children

Many parents and adults think they have the right to be entitled in relation to children. The parent lobby teaches parents that they have the right to be entitled on the parent level. Most parents today want to be seen as good parents, and often insist that they are good parents. However, nowhere in the Bible does it say it is okay to be entitled towards your child.

I am a children's rights Christian/conservative. Children's rights can be a conservative ideology, but only if it is marketed as an anti-entitlement ideology. Children's rights, by the conservative definition, is the opposition and avoidance of parental entitlement. We at conservatism will never be convinced of children's rights any other way. Parental entitlement is the lowest level of entitlement. Leaving this world without working on avoiding parental entitlement is a death sentence, meaning the parent entitled will not inherit the Kingdom of God - and that very message is the core of everything done on my children's rights platform.

It says in Romans 3:9-12 KJV:

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

This passage was originally written to Roman Christians in the 1st Century, who were becoming way too prideful in their practice of Christianity. The Roman Christians believed that they were the righteous ones just for being Christians. Paul was convicting them, trying to bring them to a place of humility. Today, this passage can be understood as a reflection of what God thinks of mankind. God hates us all as human beings, so much that He doesn't want us to even exist within His midst. Only a few of us as adults will win His favor, with all other adults marked for deletion. Every single adult is a depraved and entitled sinner deserving of nothing but DEATH and PUNISHMENT merely for existing in relation to God and the Children He protects. All children that die go to Heaven, as the little children are the greatest in the Kingdom of God (Matt. 19:14). All adults, by default, are predestined to the second death. This whole world is hostile to children, and so God will destroy everything on the very last day.

The Greek root word denoting entitlement, including parental entitlement, in the New Testament, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, parental entitlement refers to wanting things from children, period. Don't we all want things from children? Yet, at the same time, we shouldn't want anything from anybody as depraved human beings. So, instead of demanding things from children, we should ask politely what we want from children, and leave it up to them to decide what to give and what not to give. Want is the core of our wicked and depraved sin nature, including in relation to children, and so it is best not to want anything from children, at all. Instead of demanding respect from children, earn it. Instead of demanding affection from children, earn it or don't receive it at all. 

Parental entitlement is explicitly prohibited in the Bible, with that prohibition being mentioned in offense format. It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishment or controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children too many times, and after receiving many warnings that their punitive parenting habits were in violation of the Law. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damage or offense stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong. Paul here was lifting up the Law to a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any punishment of a child. Paul, here, was advocating for children in Greek and Roman Christian homes, where children were being spanked and whipped for any little thing the parents deemed "impure". There was no such parenting custom among the Early Christians, who were Christian pacifists even within their own homes. 

Parental entitlement is subdivided into two expressions - parent anger and parent attraction. A parent, in the brain, is like a cord, with the entitlement being the thread inside the cord's encasement. That cord is intertwined with primal instincts to control children, with one thread being sexual and another physical in terms of control output. The key to avoiding parental entitlement is to avoid the output of these control mechanisms, with these control mechanisms then being channeled inward. We should instead be angry at ourselves for what we are capable of towards children. In the case of parent attraction, that should be rechanneled using masturbation, with parent attraction only being deadly entitlement once it leads to sexual approach of children. Find fault in yourself, not your child. You can't fix your child, but you can fix yourself. 

It is the responsibility of parents and other adults to avoid parental entitlement. Parental entitlement is the lowest level of our entitlement. Avoiding parental entitlement makes one more silent and shamefaced as a Christian member of society, and makes one more understated and humble. Avoiding parental entitlement also makes one aware of every level of their psyche, enough to control every level of themselves. The goal of children's rights is to subdue parental entitlement and then seek to eliminate it, knowing it will never be fully eliminated due to the low level nature of the entitlement. In the end, it won't matter that someone might be accusing you of child abuse, because then you can just provide the evidence and answer to the court, without worrying about adult pride and power. Being an adult is a power trip that is entitled in nature. Avoiding parental entitlement is stepping down and abdicating from that position of power and privilege. 

The parent entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast forever 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 Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!