Birth nudity: Understanding the Christian tradition of birth nudity

Many parents think that attachment parenting is a "new age" form of parenting. However, attachment parenting is an ancient custom dating back to the Early Church, and even before then. The core aspect of Christian attachment parenting is birth nudity. When done the right way, birth nudity helps to gel a bond with your child.

Birth nudity is the most intimate expression of the doctrine of mutual submission, 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 "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 parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to perform good works for children, with children resting securely in the good works of parents. Good works here refers to doing good things for children, meeting children's every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return. See also Matt. 22:35-40, 25:31-46; 1Cor. 13:4-8. 

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, 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 initially charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined 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 deacon.

Christian parents in the Early Church allowed their children to go naked, wherever they went. Children under age 6 were in deep birth nudity closeness with mothers, with young children going naked wherever they went, and mothers going naked within the context of the family home. This birth nudity setup helped facilitate easy skin-on-skin contact, with children experiencing the rays of skin-on-skin sustaining warmth even when they were merely picked up. When children cried, mothers picked up the child and then found some way to soothe the child's upset, depending on what vulnerable need they had. Usually, all a child needs is YOU.

Birth nudity can be practiced today by allowing your child to go naked whenever they were situated in the context of the family home. When a child cries, the mother should pick up the child, and give the child mammary closeness. Mammary closeness, in part, means breastfeeding, for as long as your child latches on to the teat of mothers. The idea is to leave clothing hanging in an open area of the home, for the child to discover and try on, with most children instinctively finding their clothing at some point, and trying it on. When children try on their first clothing, give them praise and encouragement for covering up.

Birth nudity has a right way and a wrong way to be practiced. When you find yourself smacking your child around just to get them to wear clothing, you are not using birth nudity properly. Birth nudity is properly applied as leaving the nudity go, until the child finds their clothing and tries it on. Children naturally will be curious about wearing clothing, in which case they should be praised and encouraged to keep the clothing on once they put it on.

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!