Birth nudity: Why birth nudity is a Christian tradition

Many parents in America insist that their children keep on the clothing. Most parents punish their children for immodesty when children take off their clothing in a place other than their room. However, the fact of the matter is that birth nudity is a Christian tradition predating Christianity itself. Birth nudity is the optimal way to gel a secure attachment with children as a parent.

Birth nudity is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission in the family home. 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 parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children, 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 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 children like a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law in order to convict a group of Greek Christians 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 in order to punish their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were persecuted largely for being "too soft" on their children.

Birth nudity is a time-honored Christian tradition predating the Early Church by thousands of years. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness and warmth with mothers. Mother and child were quartered in the family home, in mother-child closeness and intimacy. Children up until age 3 were constantly held, either in the mother's arms, or in a papoose bag tied to her back. Children aged 3-6 ranged beside mothers when mothers walked around the house. When mothers had to go into a separate room, there was her child - following her everywhere. Whenever children cried, mothers cooed at their children before picking them up, then holding her child in order to reassure them. Children, when mothers were out in public, were swaddled next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets, with milk-dependent children falling asleep in mother's arms. Come nightfall, children co-slept next to mothers in skin-on-skin warmth and closeness. Children co-slept next to mothers in the nude every night, all the way up until the child reached the onset of puberty.

Today, this context can be applied by letting young children run around the house naked, with mothers preferably holding the child if they are under age 3, or else with children ranging next to mothers until around age 6. The idea is to leave out a set of clothing on a hanger, for children to wear when they are ready. In the biblical context, children had to earn their clothing. However, today, the context can be supplemented by instead allowing children to go naked until they wear their clothing willingly.

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!