Birth nudity: Why birth nudity is a Christian tradition

Many parents think that children should keep the clothes on, and even punish children for dress immodesty. However, the core aspect of Christian attachment parenting is birth nudity, which occurred during the first 6 years of life.

Birth nudity is part 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 submission of parents. This word refers to a secure attachment between parents and children, meaning a secure attachment is commandment from God. This secure attachment came from parent submission.

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 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 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 secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and even took in a few orphaned children in his time. Indeed, Greco-Roman fathers used the scourge of cords to punish their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were hated largely for being "too soft" on their children.

Birth nudity was the main parenting practice for young children under age 6. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness to mothers, meaning that wherever the mother went, so did the child. The Early Christians practiced birth nudity, where mothers and children were quartered in the nude next to each other, in the family home, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. Children up until age 3 were constantly held or else wrapped up in a papoose bag, with both mother and child in the nude. When children were aged 3-6, they ranged next to mothers, hand in hand. When mothers and children did go out and about, the children were swaddled next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. Children in biblical times earned their clothing when they were baptized.

The modern application of birth nudity is where mothers take off from work, and tend to their babies and young children for the first 6 years of a child's life. The idea is instead of children earning their clothing, the clothing is left out on a hanger, within reach of the child. Until the child chooses their clothing, they are allowed to run around naked in the household. At some point, the child tries on the clothing on their own, in most cases out of wearing clothing being modeled to them. Until then, mothers are to pamper their children with intense closeness and intimacy. Skin-on-skin closeness continues in co-sleeping format, until children shake themselves free from that, in most cases at the onset of puberty.

When children were given birth nudity for the first 6 years of their life, the gave parents the respect that they earned. Respect was earned in biblical times for children, not handed out for free on a silver platter. The respect that was earned of children, when children were older, stemmed from the close birth nudity between mother and child. From there, children instinctively listened to their parents. However, the choice to listen to parents is a decision between a child and God, not something enforced on children.

The Christian tradition of birth nudity is a biblical tradition that predates Christianity itself. The Bible and its context are what we glean from as a society. The Bible is a founding document in this country, even above the Constitution itself. The Bible commands a secure attachment between parents and children, when understood in its context. Part of that secure attachment was birth nudity, and that wamth and closeness won over children, and gained good graces with children.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast forever 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!