Righteous co-sleeping: Why God wants you to sleep next to your children

Many parents are opposed to co-sleeping next to their children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents punish children for bedtime refusal. However, the main reason for bedtime refusal is that children aren't ready for sleeping on their own. Also, righteous co-sleeping helps prevent child sexual abuse.

Co-sleeping is a part of a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. See Colossians 3:20 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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. The context tells us how to form a secure attachment with your child. The core way of forming a secure parent-child bond is to co-sleep next to children, for long as they need you to be with them at night, as was done in the context.

Most young children refuse to go to bed, and then are punished for it. However, the fact of the matter is that children under age 6 are too young to sleep on their own. Children under age 6 have a morbid fear of being devoured by predators when left isolated in a room on their own. You might think that there are no predators that exist today. You would be wrong. Most child sexual abuse is a bedtime ritual, where the father sneaks into his child's room and rapes the child. In the Early Church, child sexual abuse was rare, and that is because the mother was right there, co-sleeping next to her children in skin-on-skin format  

The main excuse for not co-sleeping next to children comes from fearmongering on the part of pediatricians and mental health professionals serving children, with frightening terms such as "sleep dependence". However, most Christian parents in the Early Church knew more than parents today that co-sleeping always has an end to it. In the Early Church, children slept next to parents in skin-on-skin format, until the child reached the onset of puberty, which is when they usually wanted their own place to sleep. 

In the Early Church, customary law mandated skin-on-skin co-sleeping, with the family bed being naked in terms of setup. Fathers hung up their robe, and mothers hung up her dress, by the door once they got home. Children went naked wherever they went. When children slept in mom and dad's bed, mom was right there, separating the father from his children, guarding them from the sexual wrath of fathers. The proper term for this setup is nude gentle parenting. 

I myself was punished for trying to sleep in my parents' bed. Whenever I would try to co-sleep next to parents, my parent abuser grabbed me by the throat, in a fit of rage. He felt the right to sleep with his wife, meaning my mother. My father even dared to put a lock on the door. I would call what he did emotional neglect, as well as physical abuse.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punishing bedtime refusal 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!