Georgia barber gives misbehaving child an old-man haircut

If your child is misbehaving, there's no need to send them to their room anymore...

Book an appointment at A-1 Kutz -- a barbershop in Snellville, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. And make sure you ask for the "Benjamin Button Special" -- the haircut of choice for misbehaving children.  

It all started when a woman came into the barbershop with her rule-breaking son. She asked the barber to give her son a bald spot on the top and a low cut on the sides. 

Darion Hammonds, a barber at A-1 Kutz, watched as his boss give the child the unfortunate cut. 

He tells  As it Happens guest  host Laura Lynch "I was kind of laughing. But, at the same time, as a parent, you have to do what you have to do."

Since then, pictures of the haircut have been creating a buzz on social media. "When everybody saw the little kid online...it just kind of went wild. Like there's a young man, with this old man's look. How did he achieve this type of haircut," said Hammonds. 

Not all responses have been positive, with many saying that child shaming isn't an appropriate way to discipline a rule-breaker. 

Hammonds doesn't agree. 

"I would rather you do this than your child get older and you have to see them in jail or anything like that," he said. 

Here's a before and after picture of the boy's haircut: