Righteous co-sleeping: Why parents are to co-sleep righteously next to children

Many parents think that co-sleeping is the irresponsible choice in parenting. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents refuse to co-sleep next to their children. The fact of the matter is, however, that the Bible teaches, in context, the value and importance of co-sleeping in the righteous way. The fact of the matter is that skin-on-skin co-sleeping alone can expose a predator where it needs to be exposed.

Righteous co-sleeping is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, where children surrender into the loving arms of mothers. 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 submission of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul to lift up the customary law which commands a secure attachment between parents and children in 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 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 the Law in order to convict a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child in his secular writings. Greco-Roman fathers used the scourge of cords on their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the scourge of cords was shunned by Christian parents in the Early Church.

It is common knowledge that children aged 2-6 often refuse to go to bed. This is normal behavior for a child that age, and denotes that children that young are too young to sleep on their own. Children under age 6 have a primal fear of predators devouring them in the night. Most parents may think that predators don't exist today. However, most child sexual abuse takes place at night, when the child is isolated in a room alone, with the perpetrator usually being the father. This is why mothers co-slept next to their children in skin-on-skin comfort and sustenance. The skin-on-skin aspect of the co-sleeping forced fathers to confront their parent attractions, and come to a point where they masturbated to their sexual fantasies about their children, centering their sex drive for children somewhere else, away from children. 

The most common argument against co-sleeping is that children "need" to self-soothe. This is a common sentiment not only amongst parents but also in professionals dealing with children. The fact of the matter is that co-sleeping, in most cases, stops on its own. Children co-slept next to mothers, and kept sleeping next to mothers until the onset of puberty. Upon the onset of puberty, children wanted a place of their own to sleep.

Righteous co-sleeping helps form a bond between mothers and children. Righteous co-sleeping is skin-on-skin co-sleeping, just as it was done in biblical times. The skin-on-skin comfort and sustenance, which came throughout the night, helped gel a secure attachment between mothers and children. Co-sleeping was one of the last things for children in biblical tines to shake off, and when they did, they reached the onset of puberty, and thus were ready to sleep on their own. Skin-on-skin co-sleeping is the Christian way of doing attachment parenting, hence righteous co-sleeping.

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!