Time-in: Why mammary closeness is the biblical way to do time-in

Many parents think that authoritative parenting is the best way to deal with a child. Authoritative parenting usually involves false imprisonment in the form of time-out, with the occasional disciplinary spanking in some homes. This is how most American children are raised. However, an alternative to a time-out is a time-in. There is a right way and a wrong way to do time in, with the right way endorsed by the Bible. Mammary closeness is the method of time-in used in biblical times. 

Time-in takes place within the context of the Christian 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 sactifice 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 wake of 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 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 they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law 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 in his writings.

Time-in was a thing in biblical times, and mothers practiced it when their children were crying or upset. When a child cried or was upset, mothers responded to the upset of the child by cooing and lifting up the child into their arms. Mothers and children then were completely naked in the family home, with children being naked wherever they went until adulthood. This nakedness between mother and child enabled ease in skin-on-skin contact, where mothers could easily just pick up a child when they are upset, and the child would received the skin-on-skin comfort and sustenance that they need.

Christian attachment parenting is a form of attachment parenting that emulates the context of the Early Christians. A practice of Christian attachment parenting is birth nudity, meaning the child is naked until the child is ready to wear clothing, and the mother is naked alongside the child in order for the child to have the sustaining warmth and nourishment that the child needs. This practice in parenting emulates the abovementioned biblical context, which was the case in the Early Church. 

Thus, when your child is crying or throwing a temper tantrum, be sure both of you are naked when in the family home, and then embrace your child and pick the child up. The skin-on-skin bonding experience will bring you closer together in those difficult moments for your child. When a child throws a fit in public, take the child into the restroom and tuck the child under your shirt in skin-on-skin format, which should have roughly the same effect on 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 in to 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!