Haircut as a way to punish your misbehaving kid!

[marylander1940]

Haircut as a way to punish your misbehaving kid.

 

Got a kid who’s raising hell? Afraid the police will be called if you break out the belt? A suburban Atlanta barbershop may have a solution for you.

 

Three days a week, parents can take their misbehaving kids to A-1 Kutz and ask for the “Benjamin Button Special,” which Russell Fredrick and his team of barbers are offering — free of charge — to parents who want to try a novel form of discipline.

 

The cut involves shaving hair off the child’s crown until he begins to resemble a balding senior citizen, inviting that unique brand of adolescent humiliation that can only come from teasing classmates and unwanted attention.

 

Supporters say it’s the perfect punishment for misbehaving kids who want to “act grown.”

 

More:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/03/this-barber-will-publicly-shame-your-misbehaving-kid-with-an-old-mans-haircut/

 

http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aVO9pXw_700b.jpg

 

http://conservativetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-11-06-haircut-after-1.jpg

 

[bigvalboy]

This is not a good idea....and a little creepy.

[namchebaz]

This is not a good idea....and a little creepy.

 

+1!!!

[BabyBoomer]

I wonder how DYFS feels about this? Could it be considered a form of emotional abuse?

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ FreshFluff]

I wonder if someone is getting his shaving fetish satisfied for free. Why else would any business come up with this idea?

 

Also, what did these kids too again? Act too grown up, whatever that means? The girl's "crime" was simply not brushing her hair enough.

 

Totally unconscionable IMO.

[marylander1940]

shaving fetish[/url] satisfied for free. Why else would any business come up with this idea?

 

Also, what did these kids too again? Act too grown up, whatever that means? The girl's "crime" was simply not brushing her hair enough.

 

Totally unconscionable IMO.

 

We all agree on this subject.

 

I would send the parents a visitor from Social Services.

[+ purplekow]

its hair it will grow back They are not removing a limb. My father used to give me bad haircuts all the time and i was not even being punished. It is not a discipline i would recommend, but some parents get to a point that they will do anything to try and get their children into line. Yes it probably says more about the parenting skills of the parents than it does about the ills of the children. Most of those kids are not likely to do whatever it was that got them this haircut to start.

[+ FreshFluff]

Why come up with this idea? One thing's for sure, this barber is getting a lot of publicity for free.

 

(That doesn't mean I agree or disagree with the idea. I come from a family with six children. I had a father who could be pretty tough and nevertheless I grew up to be a stable adult. Or would it be that because of that I grew up to be a stable adult? I think children need to learn as a child what they can do and what they can't do in order to be successful later in life.)

 

Anton.

 

It's publicity, but it may scare away a lot of moms who would have otherwise brought their kids in for a cute back to school haircut. Who knows what the barber is going to do if the kid starts to squirm..

[+ quoththeraven]

I don't see this as discipline or a bad haircut, but as a form of humiliation. As such, I think it's a bad idea, as what humiliation usually accomplishes is inducing a hatred of the person(s) responsible for the humiliation rather than any real change of heart or even of behavior. Some children respond to this form of bullying by digging their heels in and acting out even more.

 

That is different from consequences. It would be reasonable, for example, to cut the hair of the girl who wouldn't cooperate in keeping it tangle-free shorter or in a more easily-maintained style rather than giving her a buzzcut. But unless the haircut was administered in a painful or dangerous manner, or was accompanied by physical abuse, I doubt it alone would be enough to get the authorities to do anything other than investigate cursorily.

[+ FreshFluff]

I don't see this as discipline or a bad haircut, but as a form of humiliation.

 

Good point. When western Europe was liberated at the end of World War 2, headshaving was used as a way of humiliating women who had slept with German soldiers. They were paraded through the streets afterwards.

[marylander1940]

Some people shouldn't be allowed to get a mortgage, "play" in the stock market and have children....

 

We agree on something Kumbayah!

[+ Funguy]

#1. Parents need to take a test AND PASS before they should be allowed to have kids.

#2. I thought we were trying to get AWAY from bullying, humiliation, etc. This is a perfect form of exactly that - and by the parents themselves!