Christian attachment parenting: Upholding the Christian tradition of attachment parenting

Many parents think that punitive parenting such as spanking and other forms of punishment are part of our traditions as a country. It is a common belief amongst American parents that punitive parenting is a tradition that needs to be preserved. The fact of the matter is that the Bible is America's book, and the Bible says, in context, that attachment parenting is the only way to raise children in a Christian manner.

Most anti-spanking advocates are for secularizing America, in order to universalize their religious traumas. I myself am a Christian dominionist. God cast a dominion over all of America, with the Bible as codified law issuing a warning to all evildoers, which is all of mankind. Only a few will heed the warning. Part of that warning, contrary to popular belief, is that attachment parenting should be the law and custom of the land. Attachment parenting was the parenting of the ancients, including the Ancient Jews and Early Christians. The Bible is America's book, with God being King of this country, and with the Bible being codified law. That codified law, in context, commands attachment parenting.

The concept of Christian attachment parenting is based on the doctrine of mutual submission. Parents are to dutifully and selflessly submit to children as they would God, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Children are to rest safely and securely in the presence of parents, trusting parents in all things, following mothers around especially like goslings to a mother goose.

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 a child, stemming 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 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 then as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context in order to convict a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing their children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.

Parents were submissive to children in biblical times. Then, children were regarded as extensions of God, meaning installments of God called to judge righteously the level of charity that parents or adults have towards them and other vulnerable people. Children, as individuals, were seen as deities of of their own, being representative of God in part, and with children as a collective being seen as a collective Godhead. Children were seen as gods and goddesses reigning over their parents, with parents being submissive to them as they would be submissive to God, seeking to win over the deity that was their child. Children were prized for being bold and rebellious, not when they were being "nice". 

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing when outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve both their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by way of providing for them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comforting strategies. 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 skin-to-skin contact with mothers. By day, children ranged beside mothers, sometimes clinging to her. When out and about, and when children were age 6 and under, mothers wrapped up their children close to their bosom in swaddling blankets, keeping the child nice and cozy warm. Children went naked in biblical times for a specific reason - so that mothers could scoop them up and snuggle them, maybe allowing them to breastfeed, when they were upset. Fathers also formed a secure attachment to children, and did so by witnessing mother-child closeness. Usually, fathers form a sexual attachment to their children, usually daughters, with fathers using connotational sexual attraction to his own children in order to imprint on them. Fathers dealt with these unrequited lusts by purging them in masturbatory fantasy. Actual child sexual abuse was rare next to non-existent in biblical times, but when it did happen, it was seen as deserving of death, even in the New Testament, where the death penalty was abolished by Jesus Christ.

Attachment parenting has been the default choice of parenting for mothers especially since time immemorial. Attachment parenting, including of the Christian sort, is the most time-honored and time-tested of parenting systems, starting in the very beginning of our evolutionary history. Since time immemorial, mothers have been allowing even older children to breastfeed, holding naked children against their bare skin as a form of closeness and bonding. Attachment parenting is strongly engrained into our evolutionary nature, and in the case of skin-to-skin contact, there are nerve endings on both the body of the child and the mother coming together and creating traction and comfort. Children's bodies are designed to be scooped up and held to the warmth and comfort of their mother's bosom.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger 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!