Christian attachment parenting: Upholding the biblical tradition

Many parents today think that authoritative parenting is the way to go. The most common form of authoritative parenting amongst American parents is time out, perhaps in conjunction with a disciplinary spanking. Most Americans think that punitive parenting is a part of our traditions. However, the highest law of the land is the Holy Bible, meaning God's Law, and God's Law prohibits all forms of punitive parenting, and commands attachment parenting.

God cast a dominion over all of America, yet only a few will heed the warning. Many will be called to being Christians, yet only a few will be chosen for the Kingdom of Heaven, and those will be those who treat children with respect. I myself am a Christian dominionist, and see the Holy Bible as codified law righteously imposed by God on this country. Jews and Muslims want their law. Why can't we Christians want ours? But, Christian law actually prohibits punitive parenting, and explicitly so, when the words of the Bible are understood in context. Attachment parenting is a Christian tradition transported from Israel to the Western world by way of the Bible. 

Christian attachment parenting is based off of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. Parents are to be submissive to their children, just as mankind is to be submissive to God. In turn, children are to rest safely and securely in the love and submission of 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. 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 children as their enemy, from beneath yet from above, revering and fearing children as vulnerable extensions of 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 was understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor towards a child. 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 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 children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.

Parents are to be submissive to children, just as mankind is to be submissive to God. Parents are the enemy of children, just as mankind is the enemy of God, with parents being subservient to children, in that order. Children were seen in biblical times as the "least of these", meaning vulnerable appearances of God. Whatever you didn't do for your child, you didn't do for God. Parents were to be bondservants to children, just as mankind is righteously enslaved to God. Serving your child was seen as the same as serving God. Children issued righteous demands onto parents, and parents gave up all fight against their child's demands, giving in to their child's demands. Usually, children made demands vulnerably, though tears, with mothers especially tending to those tears. 

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing outside of 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 comfort. Children, during the first 6 yeats of life, never left the side of mothers, ranging next to mothers, clinging to her when they were crying or upset. When children were defiant or aggressive, mothers curled up with them in the fetal position. When out and about, mothers wrapped up their young children in swaddling blankets, carrying them in their bosom wherever they went, offering milk-dependent children to breastfeed from time to time. Mothers co-slept next to their children, in order to guard children from predatory threats, including the sexual entitlement of fathers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with their children, by way of witnessing skin-on-skin closeness between mother and child, with the father wanting in due to a sexual attachment to the nude child. Fathers usually dealt with this sexual attachment to their children - usually their daughters - by way of following their sexual thoughts about their child to the end using masturbatory fantasy. This enhanced the father-child bond, with daughters also being attracted to their fathers, usually with daughters wanting to look attractive for their fathers. This stage in a young girl's sexual development lasted until puberty, when she became interested in boys her age. Actual child sexual abuse was rare next to non-existent in biblical times, and was severely punished in both the Old and New Testaments. In the Early Church, sexual abusers of children were excommunicated for fornication, and were never allowed back to the parish that they offended. 

The Bible is the most inportant founding document of this country, next to the Constitution itself. We were given, by the Founding Fathers, a secular government, but with the intent that we would remain a religious society. Christian dominionism holds that when a society remains religious, those Christian values become enshrined in the secular law, with the secular law reflecting Christian law. Most people may think this means we need to encoutage spanking and punitive parenting. But, the Bible - a founding document of this country - clearly calls for attachment parenting, if you understand the text in its context. Therefore, we have a Christian tradition for attachment parenting in this country, known as Christian attachment parenting. It is about time we revive that tradition, and uphold it for generations to come. 

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!