Temper tantrums: What to do about temper tantrums

Most all parents, if not all, have had to deal with this. A child starts crying and ramping up, until the child descends into a full-blown temper tantrum. Most parents punish children who throw temper tantrums. This is a common parenting method used here in America. The fact of the matter is that a better remedy to temper tantrums is mammary closeness.

Mammary closeness is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, with mothers working to provide warmth and sustenance, and children resting in it. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to 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 submission of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul to lift up the customary law that commands a secure attachment between parents and children within the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children as their enemy, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return.

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, but not limited to, any punishments, reprimands, 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 aa 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 convicting 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.

Children did have temper tantrums in biblical times, but instead of reacting to the situation, mothers in the Early Church responded to the cries of children. Whenever a child cried, mothers were quick to swoop in and coo towards their child, then holding the child close to her bosom in mammary closeness. Cooing helped reassure and validate the cries of children, and mammary closeness gave children optimal comfort so that they can calm down. Mothers, for milk-dependent children, breastfed them wherever they were, in order to further soothe their upsets.

For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness to mothers, meaning wherever the mother went, so did the child. The Early Christians practiced birth nudity, with mother and child in the nude next to each other, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. Whenever a child cried or was upset, mothers responded by cooing before picking up the upset child, then holding the child close next to her bosom in mammary closeness. Most children were calm when in the presence of mothers, and that is because all of their attachment needs were met.

Public meltdowns can be prevented in young children. In the Early Church, when mothers were out and about in public, they swaddled their children next to their bosom in swaddling blankets, perhaps breastfeeding their child if the child was still milk-dependent. The swaddling blankets were made of velvet, which was grown throughout the Ancient Middle East. The swaddling blankets that cradled a young child were tied to the left breast of the mother, then across the dot to the right leg of the mother, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. Children, while swaddled to their mother, cried silent tears, and when that happened, the mother held the young child closer to her bosom, and from there offered to breastfeed if the child was still milk-dependent.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them forever be 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 day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!