Buying DS, Wii and other fun things for your son,
helping him with his lessons,
or your self-claimed personal discipline styles
do not justify your right to beat your son.
In my family, we also buy DS, Wii and other fun things for the boys,
we also help them with lessons and activities and hobbies,
but we don't beat them, at least we try not to.
I confess we get mad sometimes, we yell sometimes and even occasionally get
physical, but that's just because we are human and are not perfect.
we make a point to minimize the negative actions and try as hard as we can
to improve our parenting skills.
My suggestions for you:
Go get some teenage parenting books from the library and do a little reading
. I think any book will help in your situation.
Accept that neither you or your child is perfect. Allow some room for
mistakes, weakness and other negative things. But everybody should try hard
to correct one's mistakes, improve one's less satisfactory aspects. By everybody, I mean YOU as well as your son. And there are certain things that absolutely shouldn't tolerate mistakes. Define
these things clearly and make the consequences clear. Try to minimize the number of such things.
Never tell your kid that you will give him up if he doesn't behave
satisfactorily, just like never say divorce when you argue with your spouse.
It causes ultimate damage to one's feelings which is very hard to fix.
Hope this helps a little.
Good luck.