How to pacify a crying child in public

Many parents think that crying children deserve punishment when they "embarrass" a parent with a public meltdown. This sort of meltdown is a common excuse for child punishment. However, the fact of the matter is that there is a simple way to pacify crying in a child - swaddling blankets.

Children's rest in swaddling blankets is a form of the doctrine of mutual submission, with the burden of proof falling squarely on the part of 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 their children, from beneath yet from above, giving to children without receiving, 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 children 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 punishment of a child 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.

The cries of young children - under age 6 - were pacified in biblical times by way of being wrapped up next to the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. The swaddling blankets - and the child with them - were tied from the left breast, then across the dot to the right leg, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. From there, the swaddled child was tucked underneath the loose-fitting, revealing dress worn by mothers that resembled an apron. When children cried while being swaddled, they cried silently, in a pacified manner. The swaddling blankets worn by children in the Early Church were made of velvet, with velvet being grown throughout the Ancient Middle East.

Most public meltdowns are a reaction to the word "no". The idea is to use the word "no" seldom, meaning almost never. Whenever children were swaddled next to the bosom of mothers, they cried quietly and in pacified format when they wanted something off of the shelf. The child simply pointed to the item that they wanted, and then mom took the item of the shelf, just for the child who is snuggly warm in the bosom of mothers, with children enjoying the view from their rest in the bosom of mothers.

Today, you see children kicking and screaming on the floor of a restaurant or store. That almost never happened in biblical times. Swaddling blankets serve to pacify the cries of children. They do cry, but only silently, meaning tears only and without the wailing. Children also enjoyed the view from being wrapped up next to the bosom of mothers.

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 torments, suffering God's Wrath day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!