Judeo-Christian family values: How to teach Judeo-Christian values to children - without spanking or punishment

Many parents want to teach Judeo-Christian values to their children. This is a common desire for American parents. The problem is that most parents think that the only way to teach Judeo-Christian values is to punish children. The most common way to punish a child today is time-out, sometimes in conjunction with a disciplinary spanking. The fact of the matter is that you can teach any values system using attachment parenting.

The core of Judeo-Christian values is the avoidance of entitlement. The Greek root word denoting entitlement, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and is defined as, officially speaking, want, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, entitlement refers to the slightest of unattainable want. It is good not to want anything in life, but since we all want things as depraved and decadent human beings, it is good to ask politely and appropriately for what we want, accepting "no" as an answer instead of throwing a temper tantrum. If what you want will lead to a temper tantrum upon hearing the word "no", don't want it, and avoid that want at all costs. Most entitlement comes from a deserving place, where you feel that you are deserving of things in life. Know that you are a depraved and decadent sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing. Children are watching your every move as a parent, and so do not show one bit of entitlement around your children, and do not show one bit of entitlment towards your child in the form of parental entitlement. When you show entitlement at all around or towards a child, you model entitlement to that child, creating an entitled child.

Judeo-Christian family values make up a good example for children to learn from. However, every good example needs something to back it up. Punitive parenting such as time-out and spanking only drives children away from the Judeo-Christian values of their parents. Attachment parenting is the only way to truly teach Judeo-Christian values, as it is the most time-honored and time-tested form of parenting. Attachment parenting, as understood in the Bible, is based on the doctrine of mutual submission. 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 paret 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 perceied 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 thry 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 your child 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 for them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comfort. Children, up until age 6, never left the side of mothers, ranging beside mothers when at home, sometimes clinging to her when they were crying or upset. Mothers then reassured their children with skin-on-skin comfort and the phrase "this too will pass". When out and about, children were wrapped up next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. By night, mothers co-slept next to children in skin-on-skin format, guarding them from all predatory threats, including the sexual entitlement of fathers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment to children, by way of witnessing skin-on-skin closeness between mothers and children, then wanting in on the action through a sexual attachment to the child, imprinting on the child by way of masturbatory orgasm. The father's masturbatory fantasy about his child, in real life, led to a closer relationship. Usually, fathers were closer to their daughters than their sons. Actual child sexual abuse was rare next to non-existent in biblical times, with the defiled act being punished severely in both the Old and New Testaments. In the Early Church, sexual abusers of children were judged collectively as fornicators, and were excommunicated for their defiled acts towards children.

Attachment parenting is the only way to teach Judeo-Christian family values. Attachment parenting can be used to teach any values system, and that includes Judeo-Christian values. Attachment parenting creates a safe place for children to absorb Judeo-Christian values at their own pace. Judeo-Christian values aren't something you beat into children. You simply impart an example, and see how much of that example is emulated by the child. 

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 te 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!