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

Many parents believe that children deserve punishment when they cry. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents punish their children when they cry out loud. However, the Early Christian parents instead used birth nudity as a means of bonding with their child, including when they cried.

Birth nudity is a Christian tradition predating the Early Church by thousands of years. The Christian tradition of birth nudity 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 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, where parents are to submit to children just as they would to God, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return. See also Matt. 22:35-40; 25:31-46.

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 in the context of the family home, in the nude. Children growing up in the Early Church went naked wherever they went. Mothers also went naked within the family home. 

The birth nudity setup allows for easy skin-on-skin warmth and closeness. When children were even picked up by their mother, they were given skin-on-skin contact. Once children were picked up, they were held to the bosom of mothers in skin-on-skin mammary closeness. From there, mothers diagnosed the need and then met it. If children were tired, mother and child co-snuggled next to each other. If the child was hungry, they were fed. If the child needed mom's milk, they were offered the teat of mothers. If the child needed mom, they snuggled next to each other in skin-on-skin format.

Today, birth nudity can be applied by allowing children to go naked within the context of the family home, with fresh clothing hanging out in the living room. Children are curious about what the clothing is for, in which case the mother instructs her child to put on the clothing.

Mothers in the Early Christian church communities stayed home and tended to their children during the first 6 years of childhood. The reason for mothers staying home was that children would otherwise develop separation anxiety. Children under age 6 in biblical times were bound to develop separation anxiety at some point, in which case mom was right there. It is recommended that expectant mothers today quit their job and tend to the children at home.

There is a right way and a wrong way to do birth nudity. Old Order Mennonites punish their children while naked, and expect them to put on the clothing at some point. The actual way of doing birth nudity is allowing yourself as a mother to be naked in relation to your child. Children may decide to latch themselves onto the bottom of mothers, which is when you redirect them to masturbation by refusing closeness to children until they found themselves. 

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!