Many parents want their children to wear clothing, without thinking twice about it. This is a common assumption on the part of the parent - that children need to be forced to wear clothing in order to be safe from predators. However, the Early Christians had a tradition going known as birth nudity, where mother and child are in the nude next to each other in the family home.
God wants you as the parent to form a secure attachment with your child, with parents then using the context as a guidepost as to how to bond with their child. 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 is better translated as "trust", as in "trust your parents in all things". This word ultimately refers to rest, meaning a child surrendering themselves into the loving arms of mothers, with parents showing Christian Agape love for their child. Ultimately, this commandment refers to a secure attachment between parent and child within the context of the family home. The context can be used as a guidepost as to how to form a secure bond with your child, with one time-honored method being birth nudity.
There is a right way and a wrong way to do birth nudity. Old Order Mennonites let their children be naked, but then strike them until they are ashamed of their nudity. However, that is not how birth nudity was practiced in the Early Church. Christian parents in the Early Church knew better that mother-child closeness was best done in the nude.
Children growing up in the Early Church went naked wherever they went, with mothers also going naked within the confines of the family home. Mother and children under age 6 were in constant and intense closeness with each other. During this time, milk-dependent children suckled the teat of mothers, in skin-on-skin warmth. Most of the time, children rejected the teat of mothers around age 2, which was when they were ready for solid food. However, sometimes the child accepted the teat of mothers until age 6 or even beyond.
It is good to leave a change of clothing on a hanger in a neutral location, such as a banister on the way upstairs. Children are usually curious enough to find the clothing and try it on. When a child finds their clothing, and tries it on, they should be praised and encouraged to keep wearing the clothing.
When children growing up in the Early Church - under age 6 - went out and about with mothers, they were covered up by nothing but swaddling blankets, with young children resting securely next to the bosom of mothers, in swaddling blankets. These swaddling blankets were tied from the left breast, then across the dot to the right leg, or vice versa, or both, with the child being fully protected from male scrutiny. The swaddling blankets were then tucked underneath the loose-fitting, revealing dress that resembled an apron. The swaddling blankets were made of velvet, which was grown throughout the Ancient Middle East.
Children under age 6 went nowhere without their mother. That is because Christian parents in the Early Church knew that young children experienced separation anxiety, and thus mothers were always there for the child, with children seemingly being attached at the hip to mothers. Whenever you leave your child with a parent in loco parentis at all, you realize their worst fears - that you will "go away and never come back". Birth nudity simply means that this intense closeness comes in the nude.
The tradition of birth nudity is a time-honored Judeo-Christian tradition predating Christianity by thousands of years, with the tradition originally being a Jewish tradition. Christian parents in the Early Church knew more than parents today that children are created by God to be affectionate with parents, and that punishment severs that parent-child bond. Children want YOU to be their best friend and close confidant. This was how parenting went throughout the biblical context, and that is how parenting should go today,
The depraved and entitled parents who punish their children for their own nudity will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them descend into torrents of Hell-fire prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent!
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