While the father loves his son, there are a couple scenes he gets mad and he briefly screams at the boy to go to his room.
The boy and his father get into a playful fight but he soon gets on the father's nerves, the father slaps him on his cheek slightly hard to tell him to stop.
The boy bites another boy in the leg while they are swimming.
The boy put dish soap in the washer making a mess when trying to wash the clothes. While the father is angry and roughly tugging at the boys arm, he slaps the boy very hard against the face. We next see him with a large bruise on his cheek. The father later aplogizes.
The boy lightly slaps a girls face when he hears some unsettling news from her. She slaps him back.
In rage, about finding the bird, the father tries to catch it while the boy tries to protect it, the father pushes the son around and on the couch to get him out of the way.