Callous and unemotional traits in children: How the fetal position treatment helps cure callous and emotional traits

Some parents have a nightmare for a parenting career. "Callous and unemotional traits" are a form of Conduct Disorder in children. Basically, it is Conduct Disorder to the level of childhood psychopathy, which is first evident around age 8. Usually, these traits exist in children abused in a top-down way, where children were not even allowed to breathe in terms of their emotions. Usually, it is the force of parental punishment triggering genetic traits that otherwise wouldn't be triggered. There is a cure for these traits, and it is an attachment parenting cure. Such children surely existed in biblical times, and parents would release their emotions by holding them in the fetal position. 

The fetal position treatment exists within the context of 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 in the family home, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children as they would to God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Parents are to submit to their children as their enemy from beneath, yet from above, revering children as one would God. 

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 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 that they did wrong, thereby treating them as quartered slaves. 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 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, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they were adults. Women only wore clothing outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve 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 comfort. In biblical times, children who behaved in a defiant or oppositional way towards parents were held close to the bosom of mothers, with mothers curling up with the child in the fetal position.

How does a parent apply the abovementioned context? When a child with callous/unemotional traits is ready to go to sleep, invite them to co-sleep next to you in skin-on-skin format. Sleep with them while curled up in the fetal position. What you should find is that your child should cry their cry of cries right into your bosom, letting go of their repressed emotions.

A child with callous and unemotional traits is just that - unemotional. Most children are full of big emotions. A child with callous/unemotional traits was kept down by parents to the point where their emotional complexes are completely repressed beneath a sheath of callous anger. When such a child receives skin-on-skin comfort, in fetal position format, the repressed emotions come out in both the child and the mother. Then, welcome their emotions to the household. The child should cry more for you, in which case you just hold them to your bosom as a mother again in skin-on-skin fashion, and reassure them that "this too will pass". They would be an emotional mess for you, and would confide everything into you. 

There should be less behaviors at school, because the child would hold it in until they got home, and take it out on their parents in the form of a tearful tantrum. The idea is to take all the temper tantrums your child imposes onto you, as a human punching bag for your child. Eventually, the emotions should even out, and their behaviors will go away. Whenever a behavior arises at school, and you are called in when they are suspended, respond with nothing but empathy and grace for your child, talking to them about what went wrong, using skin-on-skin comfort as a means to reassure your child. The more you show empathy for a child with these sort of traits, the more they will be able to pick up how to empathixe with others. 

The depraved and entitled parents 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!