Birth nudity: Why God wants birth nudity in the family home

Many parents think that children need punishment when they cry. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most parents are unaware as to the long standing tradition of birth nudity in this country. Birth nudity is a time-honored Christian tradition predating the formation of the Early Church.

Birth nudity is the core tenet of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, with the burden of proof falling squarely on the parents. 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 in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return. See also Matt. 22:35-40; 31:25-46.

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 was 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. The 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 during his time as a deacon.

Birth nudity is a time-honored tradition predating the Early Church. Birth nudity happens when mother and child are confined next to each other in the family home. Children growing up in the Early Church went naked wherever they went, with mothers also going naked within the confines of the family home. 

This birth nudity setup allows for easy skin-on-skin contact between mother and child, with children receiving skin-on-skin warmth and sustenance every time that they were even picked up. Once children were picked up, they were held next to the bosom of mothers. If the child was tired, mom and child co-snuggled next to each other. If the child was hungry, they were fed. If the child needed mom's milk, the teat of the mother was right there for the child to latch onto, for as long as the child accepted the teat to suckle. If the child needed mom, she was right there.

Today, birth nudity can be applied as allowing your child to go naked in the confines of the family home, while leaving out a nice fit of clothing in plain view of the child. This birth nudity lasted until the child was curious about the clothing hanging out in plain view. 

Birth nudity, as practiced in the Early Church, helped facilitate closeness during a stage of childhood frought with separation anxiety. Most children growing up in the Early Church started out childhood having separation anxiety in relation to parents. Separation anxiety is a stage of childhood where children under age 6 were morbidly afraid of mothers "going away and never coming back". Only, in the case of birth nudity, mom is right there, and thus children can receive the rays of skin-on-skin from their mother in the context of birth nudity.

Expectant mothers are advised to quit their job and let the man of the house pay the bills. The whole reason for this is separation anxiety in children under age 6. Children aged 0-6 are bound to develop separation anxiety. Christian mothers in the Early Church accommodated this anxiety in children by offering children birth nudity closeness, meaning mothers stayed home and tended to their children, with both mother and child going naked in the family home. The idea is to be there for your child day and night, at least until the first 6 years have passed.

Birth nudity involves near constant skin-on-skin sustaining warmth in relation to children. Most of that closeness came in the form of mammary closeness. Skin-on-skin warmth is the easiest way to become an attachment parenting mother. Once you take that plunge into skin-on-skin sustaining warmth, your only regret will be not doing it sooner.

There is a right way and a wrong way to do birth nudity. Old Order Mennonites allow for their children to be naked, while nonetheless punishing them nonstop until they put on the clothing. Proper birth nudity, however, allows for child nudity until the child elects to wear the clothing on their own. Children are naturally curious about items in their environment, and that includes clothing hanging on the banister. The child sees the adults put on clothing, and then the child copies the example of parents.

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!