I think earning anything on this site is very hard if you don't have a lot of money to begin with to use the bigger bots and sp delegation leasing services, and if you aren't able to communicate fluently in the same languages as some of the more... generous users. There isn't actually much of a point to writing your own blog posts, at least in the beginning, if followers don't have big upvote power. Maybe you can try to get in touch with chat groups on steemit that can point you in the right direction. I wish you luck on steemit and in life for you and your kids.