Righteous co-sleeping: Why God wants parents to sleep next to their children

Many parents think that co-sleeping is the irresponsible choice on the part of parents. This is a common attitude on the part of parents. However, the fact of the matter is that co-sleeping doesn't just gel a bond with a child, but also helps prevent child sexual abuse.

Righteous co-sleeping is how mothers in biblical times formed a mutual submission relationship with parents, with the burden of proof falling squarely onto 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 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 parent 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 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 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 family home. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment 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.

It is common knowledge that children aged 0-6 refuse to go to bed on their own. This is a common reason for children experiencing punishment from parents. However, the fact of the matter is that children under age 6 are not ready to sleep on their own. Children up until age 6 have a primal fear of being devoured by predators. Most parents think that predators don't exist in modern homes. They would be wrong. Most child sexual abuse happens in the form of a bedtime ritual. However, in the case of co-sleeping, none of that could happen, as the mother was right there, perhaps ready to use herself as a human shield for the father's sexual wrath. Children growing up in the Early Church co-slept next to mothers in skin-on-skin format, with fathers masturbating righteously to thoughts of his children, thus imprinting on the child after spending away their sexual desires through masturbation.

The most common excuse for parents not co-sleeping next to their children comes from fearmongering on the part of pediatricians and mental health professionals serving children in the form of terms such as "sleep dependence". However, the fact of the matter is that co-sleeping always has an end. Children growing up in the Early Church usually left the family bed at the onset of puberty, which was when most children wanted their own place to sleep. Even when children wanted co-sleeping closeness later, they usually wanted the co-sleeping to end at some point. I myself have autism, and I didn't insist on sleeping on my own until age 16, which was when I had my mother sleep on the floor next to me, and from there, I slept on my own for a chance.

Co-sleeping next to children is the best way to gel a bond with a child. In the Early Church, customary law called for a secure attachment. With a secure attachment, the child first cried, and then the mother cooed. This setup is a positive consequence of bonding techniques such as co-sleeping. Co-sleeping is best done in skin-on-skin format, which was the setup under customary law in biblical tines.

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!