The attachment parenting traditions of the Bible: Why attachment parenting is in our traditions

Many parents think that they have to punish their children, because it is in our traditions to punish children. This is a common sentiment amongst American parents. Most American parents punish their children or else are controlling with them. These parents often see child punishment as a Christian tradition. I myself am a Christian dominionist. God cast a dominion on my worldview, and I must believe just as God does, and not as the world panders me to believe. I also am anti-spanking, and my Christian tradition calls for Christian attachment parenting, just as it was practiced in the Early Church.

We, as a society, are a Christian nation. We as a society glean from the Bible and its context, in order to gain wisdom and guidance as to how our society should be set up. The Bible is codified law handed down by God Himself to cast a dominion on all of mankind, knowing only a few will heed the warning. We as a nation were founded on Christian family values, and those values should be enacted into law. Most people don't understand is that such values include attachment parenting, and that fact is proven time and time again in the context. 

Christian attachment parenting is best understood by the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. It says in 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. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ, sacrificing for the children, just as Christ sacrificed for His children, with children being a Godhead for parents to serve, and with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Parents are depraved and decadent sinners who are deserving of absolutely nothing from their children, and have to pay due penance for their sin nature by being a bondservant to their children. Children rested securely in the presence of their parents, just as goslings rest securely with their mother goose.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages of offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech, 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 punishments or controlling demeanor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong, thereby treating a child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context 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 and all punishment of a child.

Children in biblical times were not seen just as "pure" or "innocent". Children in the Early Church, as well as their Jewish predecessors, were seen as extensions of God, meaning installments of God called to convict parents of their charitable role towards children, and report to God what kind of service they received from their parents. Parents then were merely hired bondservants, serving children as they would God, fearing and revering their children, as children could turn them into the Lord for the smallest iota of needs not provided for. Parents had to please God by pleasing their child, keeping their child happy.

Children, in biblical times, wore no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve both their husbands and their children. Mothers served their children by way of providing for them nourishment and sustenance, namely breastmilk (until age 3) and skin-to-skin closeness and intimacy. The core aspect of Christian attachment parenting in the 1st Century was skin-on-skin co-sleeping, with mother and child fast asleep in the nude, and with children soaking up the rays of skin-to-skin contact. By day, children ranged next to mothers, following them around like goslings follow a mother goose. Children went naked for a specific reason in biblical times - so that mothers could cuddle them up and snuggle them up when children were crying or upset. For the first six years of childhood, time with children was to be spent together. For the last six years of childhood, time with children was to be spent apart, with fathers encouraging bold feats of independence. 

The mere presence of fathers in biblical times during the child's formative years created a father-child bond that would last forever. For fathers, however, attachment parenting triggers a parent attraction in fathers, which should be dealt with by way of pro-social fantasy, meaning engaging in masturbatory fantasy in order to purge unrequited lusts towards children. Purging unrequited lusts of any kind through masturbation was actually a Christian requirement in the Early Church. Adult sexual entitlement is the main entitlement that fathers struggle with, and they should struggle against approaching their children sexually by re-channeling their desires for their children by way of solo masturbation.

The depraved and decadent sinners who provoke children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever 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!