Paragraph Returns

OK – so I am new to Word Press…I have spent quite a few hours on the support forums looking for an answer to this. I see a lot of people are having the problem…and there seems to be no great solution.

Paragraph Returns. I cannot get them to show up in the visual post section when making a post. IF I do a shift return, I do get the line to shift down to the next line, but if I just hit enter, it doesn’t work. And doing two shift return doesn’t work either. I want a seperate paragraph. This is recipe blog, I have added my mother as someone that I would like to be able to post recipes and edit others, etc. She will have no idea how to use the code section of something like this. I would like for the visual editor to work.

Anyone have any solutions?

Thanks.