Many parents think that children cry in order to "undermine parental authority". This is a common motive for punishing children. However, the fact of the matter is that children always cry for a reason. Most of the time, the child is advocating a vulnerable need.
The Fifth Commandment is repeated in Colossians 3:20 KJV:
Children, obey your parents in all things: as is well pleasing unto the Lord.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers 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 their child, 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.
Most parents punish a crying child, thinking that children are out to "undermine parental authority". However, Christian parents in the Early Church knew more than parents today that children always cry for a reason, with children usually crying in order to petition a vulnerable need from parents. Children got most of what they wanted, and everything that they needed.
Under customary law in the Early Church, children were understood as having five basic categories of needs; food, water, shelter, transportation, and attachment - and the greatest of these needs is attachment! Children then cried a deathly, screeching cry when they needed something. If the child was milk-dependent, mothers offered their child their teat. If the child continued to cry, mothers scrambled to figure out the need behind the cry, with the crying being designed by God to break down mothers until the need is fully met.
Crying, in most cases, is developmentally-appropriate behavior in children, especially when the crying child is under age 6. A child most always cries in order to petition parents for a need. Whenever children cried, mothers cooed before responding to the child's cries, and from there, she diagnosed the need before meeting it. Usually, all a crying child needs is YOU.
The depraved and entitled parents who punished their children will not inherit the Kingdom of God! 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!
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