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

Many parents these days rely on time-out as an alternative punishment to corporal punishment. This is a common setup in the American home. However, the Bible prohibits any form of punishments hor reprimands, including time-out. Instead, God wants parents to do time-in. There are many ways of doing time-in, with some parents even sending children to a "calming corner". However, there is a biblical way of doing time-in - mammary closeness.

Doing time-in is a part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, with the burden of proof falling squarely on 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 here to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and submission of parents. This highlighted word ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parents and children in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to selflessly serve children just as they would 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 here 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, bur 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 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 children 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.

Time-in can be done in many ways, including things such as a "calming corner". However, in biblical times, there was only one way to do time-in - mammary closeness. Whenever children cried, mothers cooed before picking up the child, then holding the child next to her bosom in mammary closeness, perhaps co-snuggling with children in skin-on-skin closeness. From there, mom diagnosed the need before meeting that need. Maybe the child was tired. Maybe the child was hungry. Maybe the child needed mom's milk. Maybe the child needed mom, period. Whatever the child needed, they got it.

Breastfeeding and mammary closeness go hand in hand. Children who were milk-dependent remained so until the time came that the child refused to accept the teat of mothers. Children usually rejected the teat of mothers by age 2, but sometimes, children didn't unlatch until age 6 or even beyond. In biblical times, mothers breastfed children whenever she was called to, including in public.

Children under age 6, when out and about in public with mothers, were wrapped up next up to mom's bosom in swaddling blankets. The swaddling blankets were tied from the left breast, and then across the dot to the right leg, or vice versa, or both in the case of twins. From there, the swaddling blankets - and the child with them - were tucked underneath the loose-fitting, revealing dress thar resembled an apron. Whenever children cried, they were held even closer to mom's bosom, in mammary closeness. The swaddling blankets were made of velvet, which grew throughout the Ancient Middle East.

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!