Thank you all so much

Well, we went ahead with the electric for starters, and if he doesn't like it I'll pass it up to my husband (who needs a new electric anyway) and move to the razors and shaving cream. I'll get him some of those regardless, so he can give that method a shot if he'd prefer.

Shoot, it's his face. He'll figure out which methodology he prefers.

And y'all, if he wants facial hair someday when he's actually capable of growing some (IF -- his genetics for that are wildly mixed), he's welcome to it. But at 14 it's just not there. He's got time