Time-in: Why mammary closeness is the biblical way of doing time-in

Many parents think that punishing children is acceptable parenting. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most parents punish or else ignore their child when they cry. The fact of the matter is that time-in is better than time-out, but should be done a specific way to be more effective.

Time-in is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, where children surrender into the 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. This word ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parent and child. This secure attachment ultimately comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children 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 whi 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 as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating them as 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 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 during his time. Indeed, Greco-Roman fathers got out the scourge of cords in order to punish their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christian were largely persecuted for being "too soft" on their children.

Time-in is not a modern parenting technique. Time-in was done in biblical times, and it was done in a specific manner, with that method being mammary closeness. Whenever children cried, mothers cooed at their children before picking them up, then holding the child to their bosom in mammary closeness. This mammary closeness was done by way of skin-on-skin warmth and sustenance, holding the child to the bosom area. Mammary closeness was further enabled by the fact that mothers were naked in the family home, and children were naked wherever they went. This setup was intended to make skin-on-skin mammary closeness easier, with mothers holding children and co-snuggling with children in the nude with her child.

When out and about in public, mothers swaddled their children - under age 6 - next to their bosom in swaddling blanket. Mothers, from there, tucked the swaddled up child underneath the loose-fitting, revealing dress of mothers that looked like an apron. The swaddling blankets were tied to the left breast of the mother, then across the dot to the right leg of mothers, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. These swaddling blankets were made of velvet, which was grown throughout the Ancient Middle East. When children cried in public, the comfort of the swaddling blanket made the cries come out silent, with mothers cooing at children before holding the children closer to their bosom in constant mammary closeness.

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!