Christian attachment parenting: Upholding the Christian tradition

Many parents in America support authoritative parenting as a means of nurturing and admonishing children. The most common application of authoritative parenting is time-out, possibly with a disciplinary spanking alongside the time-out. That was my upbringing, growing up with abusive liberal parents. I believe in a Christian tradition in this country, but believe that this Christian tradition should be taught using attachment parenting.

God cast a dominion over all of America, yet only a few will heed the warning. America is a Christian nation, founded on Judeo-Christian family values. Christian attachment parenting is forming a secure attachment with children for the purpose of passing down good Judeo-Christian values onto children. Attachment parenting is an ideal way to pass down Christian family values to children.

Christian attachment parenting is based on the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. Parents are to be submissive to children, just as mankind is submissive to God, rendering themselves as the enemy of such. In return, 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 just 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 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 commnandment 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 too many times. 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 customs 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 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, separately. Mothers served their children by way of providing them nourishment and and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comfort. Children up until age 6 in biblical times never left the side of mothers, ranging beside them when at home, clinging to her in skin-on-skin format when crying or upset. Children who were crying or upset were given skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy, and were reassured "this too will pass". When out and about, young children were wrapped up next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets, perhaps offered to suckle her teat if they were milk-hungry. By night, mothers co-slept next to their children, in order to form a secure attachment with their children, and also to guard against any predators, including the sexual entitlement of fathers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment to their children by way of witnessing skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy between mother and child, and wanting in by way of a sexual attachment to the child, where the father imprinted onto the child through masturbatory orgasm. This pro-social fantasy improved the relationship between father and child, with the father reeling themslves down to the child's level, being a playmate to the child like a human ragdoll.

America is a Christian nation, founded upon Judeo-Christian family values. Most American parents want to teach children Judeo-Christian values. This can be done using Christian attachment parenting, where good values are passed down by way of secure attachment, not fear of punishment. Most children learn by example, and as long as that example conveys Judeo-Christian values, and the child has a secure attachment to their parents, you don't need to teach your child a darn thing. Children are curious enough that they can learn good values by absorbing what is in their environment. The start is YOU declaring yourself a depraved and decadent sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing. Your child will see you do this, and if they have a secure attachment to you, will want to do the same thing.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their 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!