The answer, of course, is that what the parents did is not legal, because no matter from any point of view to consider this issue, the parents do not have the right to arbitrarily chastise the child, and may even be due to the excessive scolding of the parents to let the child to produce a certain psychological shadow, and thus may be completely affected by the child's potential character, to the child to bring adverse effects.
Related data show that frequent scolding of children is easy to form a very much traumatized, they will be on the parents of the respect into resentment, thus affecting the relationship between parents and children, if this emotion for the child has no outlet, he will often be this emotion to attack their own, the emergence of a number of psychological disorders. Of course, children who are beaten and scolded are also prone to misunderstandings about how things should be handled, so that they will treat others in the same way when dealing with things, and thus have a tendency to violence, and it is very easy for children to develop an inferiority complex, believing that they are not good enough, and will always look for reasons from their own bodies when things go wrong.
So as a parent, should be more objective behavior to educate the child, in the event of inappropriate things should also be actively on the child to carry out the appropriate guidance behavior, avoid the use of violence, which will not only make things more complicated, and even for the child's future growth will cause some harm, which is not something parents want to see, so calm and peaceful with the child to communicate, to persuade people with reason. The most important thing to remember is that you should be able to get the best out of your child, and you should be able to get the best out of his or her child.