When you read the story behind its still hard to decide,if it helps the childs health but im not a doctor.Plus no need to video it,the father could have done it in private say garden if it was just for childs health in his opinion,so buy videoing it and posting online it becomes cruelty in my mind

If the father's claim is to make the kid stronger, there are better ways to do so. I don't know if it's abuse, exactly. It's more along the lines of trying to do what's best for your kid, but in a somewhat stupid manner. Although I love how on Chinasmack, somebody mentioned Sparta...

I don't see any problem with it. City folks nowadays have become too soft and spoilt: Where I grew up we'd run around naked in the snow like that just for fun.

City boys in their twenties now cry because they broke a nail and ruined their manicure. Imagine if those same people had to go through the great depression followed by WWII. We'd all be speaking Hitlerese right now.

I think this is just sadistic, especially that he is filming it, just like the practice we have seen emerge back home where parents are duckt taping their kids and posting it on facebook.