--- title: Barber Gives Misbehaving Kids Old-Man Haircuts description: If they want to act old, they can have a bald spot canonical: https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-05T16:37:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:33.571Z og:title: This Barber Is Punishing Unruly Kids By Giving Them Ridiculous Old-Man Haircuts og:description: If they want to act old, they can have a bald spot og:url: https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd6b7201a861d8e9/69877dd3cd6848c5a60998b1/comb-barber.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: LS010203 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Barber Is Punishing Unruly Kids By Giving Them Ridiculous Old-Man Haircuts twitter:description: If they want to act old, they can have a bald spot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd6b7201a861d8e9/69877dd3cd6848c5a60998b1/comb-barber.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Barber Is Punishing Unruly Kids By Giving Them Ridiculous Old-Man Haircuts  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 5, 2015 4:37 PM UTC  Comb Still Life Comb Still LifeNancy R. Cohen—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 5, 2015 4:37 PM UTC Do your kids talk back to you because they think they’re grown-ups? Well now, they can look like one, thanks to a genius barber who designed a special haircut to punish obnoxious kids. The barbers at Atlanta’s A-1 Kutz came up with the “Benjamin Button Special” to punish kids who “act grown,” by shaving their heads so they look like old men. Barber Russell Frederick and his staff are even offering the haircut for free. Frederick told the [Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/03/this-barber-will-publicly-shame-your-misbehaving-kid-with-an-old-mans-haircut/) he first tried the haircut on his own 12-year old son after he was slacking in school, and said his grades “dramatically skyrocketed” after he got his bald spot. (h/t [Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/03/this-barber-will-publicly-shame-your-misbehaving-kid-with-an-old-mans-haircut/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/"},"headline":"This Barber Is Punishing Unruly Kids By Giving Them Ridiculous Old-Man Haircuts","datePublished":"2015-02-05T16:37:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:33.571Z","description":"If they want to act old, they can have a bald spot","url":"https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/","keywords":["Living","Newsfeed","Parenting","kids"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd6b7201a861d8e9/69877dd3cd6848c5a60998b1/comb-barber.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcd6b7201a861d8e9/69877dd3cd6848c5a60998b1/comb-barber.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"LS010203","caption":"Comb Still Life","creditText":"Nancy R. Cohen—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3697072/barber-old-man-haircuts-misbehaving-kids/","name":"This Barber Is Punishing Unruly Kids By Giving Them Ridiculous Old-Man Haircuts"}}]}] ```