Why mothers should hold their children from day one

Many parents think that babies should, for their first year, be isolated in a crib or carriage. Most American parents isolate their children from day one. However, the Bible teaches, in context, that a child is inseparable from mothers from day one. That is the tradition from the context. 

Mothers holding their children in their arms is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, where children surrender to 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 are to rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. This surrender to parents came with strings attached on the part of the parents, with children issuing righteous demands from their place of rest, usually when parents weren't doing their fair share around the house for children.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages and 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, damages, or other 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 to 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 secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with women, but he sure loved children, and took in orphaned children. Indeed, Greco-Roman fathers punished their children with the scourge of cords, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were hated largely for being "too soft" on their children,

Mothers in biblical times held their children close to their bosom, in skin-on-skin mammary closeness, when children cried. Mothers held both their infants and their toddlers constantly, with young children under age 6 being treated as infants. Children were held by mothers from day one. When in public, mothers swaddled their young children - under age 6 - next to their bosom in swaddling blankets, holding a crying child closer to her bosom.

Holding children from day one conditions children to enjoy close tactile closeness. A child who doesn't like being held likely wasn't held constantly as a baby. There are many ways to hold your child as a baby. When your hands are busy in the kitchen, place your child on your back in a papoose bag. Sometimes, children, when at home, simply want to range next to you, curious about everything you are doing. Allow them to trail next to you, wherever you go. Be sure, however, to swaddle them up in swaddling blankets once out and about, as there are many hazards out there, including a busy street or throughfare. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke 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!