That was CRIMINAL ASSAULT.
Children are people with RIGHTS.
Yes, parents need to discipline, but there is a difference between discipline and assault.
Not to sound like I'm a "know it all", but I did spank my children. After they got repeated warnings. Then he/she would have to go choose the wooden spoon they where going to be spanked with. One whack on the butt, then a very long talk about how they could change their actions.

My grown daughter told me awhile ago, "It wasn't the spanking that was bad, it was that TALK."

The decision to have children means you take the responsibility to raise and teach them. Disciplining a child requires that YOU are disciplined and make the commit of time, thought and YOUR actions so that the child can learn from the situation.

Grounding a child to their room is hell. It means YOU are grounded, because you have to be there to make sure the kid stays in their room. But, it gives everyone a "time out" to consider what just happened.

The man in this video was not acting as a parent.
He was punishing his CHATEL.
In the past, legally, women and children were CHATEL of the man: his property to do with as he pleased.

We are faced now with a "new society" of temptations, advertising and social manipulation of our children...and adults.

Solutions within the family structure need to be restored. IMO those solutions come from people RESPECTING each other and COMMUNICATING what is happening around us...and what our reactions will be...as a FAMILY.

As a child, I was beaten (repeatedly) in the same manner these children were beaten. It is a horrible and terrifying experience to be physically beaten by the person who is supposed to love and protect you. Takes a long time to heal those scars.

I've made my share of my own mistakes, however, I decided my children would never be beaten. And they were never beaten.

My guess is the man in this video was also brutally beaten as a child. However, he did not make that decision to break the pattern of abuse in his own family.

Today there are lots of adults locked into the emotional scars from being physically abused as children. They are unable to relate to others, are triggered by certain words and actions. And then we have an entire society that is abusive.

Watch for those triggers, people. "Something" is pushing us all to violence in our human society. We need to step back and evaluate.

Are we going to be triggered into responding with violence (just as this man was)? Or are we going to step back and evaluate. Find a different course of response to those that want to digress humans into violence?

Think about your emotional response in viewing this video.
Did you want to beat the crap out of the man that was hitting the children?
Did you want to get right in there and hit the kids for their "bad behavior"?

Why? Why did you react this way?
And what can you personally do to help this family?

Now you know why my kids "dreaded the talk after the spoon".

Peace. Be well.