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

Many parents believe in punishing children as a means of controlling the behaviors of children. Most children in America experience time-out, and maybe the occasional disciplinary spanking done "out of love". However, the fact of the matter is that time-in is the way to go with an upset child. There are many ways to do time-in, but the biblical way is mammary closeness.

Mammary closeness is the centerpiece 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, 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" referring to 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.

There are many ways of doing time-in. Some parents send their children to a calming corner, or else kneel down to the child as they are crying. However, the right way to do time-in is the biblical way, meaning mammary closeness. Whenever a child cried, mothers cooed at children before picking them up, holding the child next to her bosom in skin-on-skin format, and from there, she diagnosed the need and then met it. Maybe the child was tired. Maybe the child was hungry. Maybe the child needed mom's milk. Maybe the child needed mom, period. 

Children went naked wherever they went, with mothers also going naked within the confines of the family home. This birth nudity setup allowed for children to have skin-on-skin mammary closeness whenever they were even picked up. When children were picked up by mom, he/she was given rays of skin-on-skin mammary closeness.

Part of mammary closeness is a milk-dependent child suckling the teat of mothers. Whenever summoned by the child to nurse a child, the mother allowed for the child to latch onto the teat of mothers. This setup could happen anywhere, including even in public. Whenever the child refused the teat of mothers, they were ready for solid foods. However, children still were held next to the bosom of mothers in mammary closeness until they turned age 6, which is when they shook off mammary closeness from mothers.

A mother's bosom is not primarily for men to sexualize. Instead, the female breasts were designed by God as a means of comforting and nurturing children. All a mother has to is try skin-on-skin mammary closeness, and then she will likely regret not trying it sooner. The idea is to soothe a crying child with skin-on-skin mammary closeness, and the rest is history!

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!