Swearing Off New Year’s Promises

If you’ve ever hauled your butt out of bed for a wailing infant, you know kids can be great motivators.

If you’ve relinquished a weekly manicure to save for their college, hand-scrubbed a kitchen floor just so they could crawl on it, or been unnaturally kind to a telemarketer because your progeny were standing there listening – then you’ve seen firsthand how effectively children can agitate for change.

I recently re-learned this concept. The hard way.