I disagree.

I agree with discipline, but not beatings. To me, that's the "easy out" that parents often take when they feel helpless and frustrated with their child.

It's not a good parenting technique in my view, as most of the time it will be done out of anger and frustration, not out of love and compassion. It's the motive/emotion behind it that usually makes the difference.

It tends to do more damage than good in most kids, breeds anger and contempt, and then that anger/rage gets suppressed until it gets expressed inappropriately, usually at or onto someone much weaker than the child; usually someone they feel they can safely bully. So, beat a child and you can end up beating another child that doesn't deserve it.

You're also teaching the child it's okay to use physical violence when they're not getting their way or are feeling frustrated with someone, instead of your trying to figure out why the child is acting out or not behaving in the first place.

Heck, it could be the parents feeding them a fucked up diet. That's not a behavioral issue, that's a dietary and parenting issue. Again, I think it's laziness on the parent's or in this case, grandparent's part, to resort to a "whoopin" instead of trying love and understanding first.

I would say that you should also be personally open to a beating at the hands of your grandchild every time you make a mistake (and I'm sure you make plenty), if that's your chosen form of discipline for him.

Abuse is not discipline. It's usually mental laziness and a lack of creativity, with no desire to actually understand and help the child out of love. It's often an "I'll show you" ego statement, which appears to be clearly evidenced here by your being on here actually BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR WHOOPING THEIR ASS; in which case it would be pure ego payback/revenge/dominance, not love, compassion or respect for your grandchild. It's abuse. Don't sugarcoat it by calling it "discipline."

And, it may appear to work in the short-term, but there are definite repercussions/side effects that come out of beating a child "for their own good" like you just have.

I have to ask, did he actually physically strike you or did he simply raise his fist? If you were defending yourself, that's one thing, but if you merely took his obvious frustration and turned it into an opportunity for you to express your dominance and authority over him, that would not be good grandparenting. It'd be being a bully, which a lot of parents are these days because they lack the patience and love it takes to properly parent.

Getting both their own and their child's neurotransmitters in balance FIRST would go a long way towards helping them have the patience needed to deal with their child's emotions and would actually help the child become far more well-adjusted and well-behaved, unlike the many deviant children we're seeing these days.

And, making sure they are not getting pumped full of brain-inflaming vaccines and feeding them complete crap that fucks up their little brains and neurochemistry, would make parenting SO MUCH EASIER.

Again, I think it's often LAZINESS and an out-of-whack brain chemistry in the parents/grandparents that keeps them from properly parenting. Please educate yourself as to why the kid's acting out in the first place before beating him next time.

Many kids and adults have truly fucked up brain chemistry these days. Vaccines are a major cause, as are sugar, processed foods, bad oils, starchy carbs (breads, potatoes, candy, etc.), red dye #40, gluten (huge one), dairy and other common allergens.