Righteous co-sleeping: Why co-sleeping is biblical

Many parents think that co-sleeping is the irresponsible thing to do as a parent. Most parents in America instead isolate children in separate beds and cribs. However, not only does co-sleeping gel a bond between parent and a child, but co-sleeping can prevent child sexual abuse, in a supervisory way.

Righteous co-sleeping is the core 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 under the Law. 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 ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment came from parent submission, where parents are to submit to children dutifully and selflessly, as they would to God, 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 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 on their children as punishment, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were persecuted largely for being "too soft" on their children.

It is common knowledge that children aged 2-6 refuse to go to bed on their own. Parents oftentimes punish children for refusing to go to bed. Most parents deal with this by setting a specific bedtime for children, and if children don't abide by it, they get punishment. However, the fact of the matter is that children that young are too young to sleep on their own. Indeed, children up until age 6 have a primal fear of being devoured by predators when left alone and isolated in a room. Many people think that there are no predators in the family home. The fact of the matter is that most rape or sexual assault of a child takes place when a child is isolated in the family home. Most child sexual abuse occurs when the adult in question refuses to acknowledge that they have normal attractions to children, usually teenagers. Co-sleeping solves all of this, because the mother is right there to protect the child if the man of the house were to try anything with the child. The way it worked was that children were at one side of mom, whereas dad was on the other side of mom. In the case of a sexual attack, mothers used themselves as human shields - more like "do me instead" and posing as the child that the father is targeting.

The debate surrounding co-sleeping ultimately surrounds self-soothing. Some professionals believe that children need to be taught how to self-soothe, or else co-sleeping will go on into eternity. The fact of the matter is that children engaged in skin-on-skin co-sleeping next to mothers, and slept next to mothers every night until the child reached the onset of puberty. At the onset of puberty, children usually wanted their own place to sleep. If this doesn't happen puberty, that might be a sign of a developmental disorder such as autism or ADHD. I grew out of co-sleeping at age 16, meaning by then, I knew I was ready, and took the plunge. Most children do the same thing I did, but do it earlier.

Co-sleeping is the ultimate way to bond with your child. Mothers in the Early Church co-slept next to children in skin-on-skin format, every single night. The idea was to keep the children nice and warm, and attached securely to her. This was all part of the concept of birth nudity, where mother and child were quartered in the nude, in the family nude, in skin-on-skin format. Come nightfall, this meant co-sleeping time between mother and child.

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 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!