Oh man! Well I feel good about getting my dad to join steemit in just a week, although somehow he adopts new things even before I do usually...now I just hope it doesn't take me a whole year to get the rest of my family to join.
I find the same problem you do with getting Steemit to "stick" with people, I have had several sign up so far, but they haven't been active at all. The best comparison I have tried to give people for starting to blog on Steemit is, that it is like getting into a swimming pool. The water is cold at first so you don't want to go all the way in, but once you are completely in you never want to get out!