My family was pretty cool with it. some of them thought that if they picked enogh that i would grow it back. HA fooled them. my dad's family is used to baldness. my mom's family is laid back and doesn't care. all in all it was very positive.

damn right pig pen. isn't that the coolest type of headrub. my son was sitting on my lap watching cartoon one day and had one hand on top of my head rubbing it. i asked him what he was doing and he said "It just feels cool daddy." this is the same kid that said he would not love me if i didn't grow it back. ( when i first shaved )

  PigPen, you brought a tear to my eye. Never had a son [wife had severe problems with blocked fallopian tuble, etc.] but, if I had had one he would, in my heart, have expressed the same love your boy did for you. Professor Melon

Great post, Lullaby.

As far as my own share of experience on that is concerned, I didn't tell my parents or relatives
about my intention to shave my head. I just did it one day. I live at a beach house about 80km
from my parent's place and they come over for visits once every couple of weeks.
When they came over after I shaved for the first time, they were quite shocked. I didn't get
any hurtful remarks, but they were definitely shocked, especially my mother - I guess in her eyes
I'll always be her baby boy. LOL
My father took it with humour - he was the first person to give me a head rub. He said I looked like
Yul Brunner.

In time they've come to accept it. I still get the occasional "why don't you let it grow back?", but other
than that nobody's giving me a hard time...

I'm glad you shaved it. The look suits you...

well between my daughter and my soon to be wife they fight over rubbing my head witch is really funny to me ...daughter gives up after awhile and starts to play with my goatee...worst reactions was my sister..but hey can't please everyone..so just please yourself...

1)  My mother and father didn't/don't like it.     They wouldn't admit it ever looked better than hair even if they knew it did.    But like I have mentioned before, they have had the same look for years, so they are fairly resistant to change on the appearance front.

For example I showed them my new drivers license pic(which was actually a good drivers license picture and way better than the old one) and my dad laughs hysterically.   

2)  Most of my other relatives didn't/don't say much about it.   I think my aunt joked about it(she would have found anything to rag me about), one of my cousins did too, and my grandma didn't say much but was like grow back hair.

3)   I've had more people come up to me and say I like it than the other way around.    Like we had a super bowl party and one of our family friends came over and she said something to the affect I didn't recognize you and/but I really like it.   One of the parents of my sunday school class a few weeks ago said "I like the new look."   

4)  I just finally put my foot down.   I don't tell my parents how to dress or what hairstyle/facial hair they can have.   I should get the same courtesy esp at the age of 23.

5)  I have gotten the "grow it back for job interviews" response from my parents/a couple people at our church but I just politely say nope.    There is nothing wrong with a shaved head/glasses/neatly trimmed beard for a job interview, and i'm not going to change who I am for the interview process only to go back to that style as soon as i'm employed.

My wife and kids love it but my parents still aren't fans of it.  I did attend a family funeral last week and all of my balding cousins said it was a good look for me and they are considering doing the same.