Meet the barber who disciplines kids with an ‘old man’ haircut

Russell Fredrick shaves naughty children’s hair into a ‘Benjamin Button Special’ to teach them a lesson. His phone hasn’t stopping ringing since he shared the punishment online, he says

Parents of misbehaving children are commonly advised to fit the punishment to the crime. For example, if your child daubs black paint on your white walls, don’t deprive them of cake: appoint them cleaning monitor. According to this logic, I can see where Russell Fredrick, a barber from Snellville, Georgia, is coming from with his “Benjamin Button Specials”. This particular haircut involves shaving the crown of a child who thinks they know it all, and leaving the sides long. It’s a tonsorial representation of precocity. Fredrick is community-minded, so he is offering these cuts to local parents free of charge. He also gives free haircuts – in a different style – to kids who get A grades.

Since Fredrick posted the pictures of a cut in progress on Instagram, along with the text, “So you wana act grown…well now you can look grown too”, the phone in A-1 Kutz, his salon, has barely paused for breath. “I’ve had people calling from Australia, the UK, Canada, all over the US.”

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