They are all so different.
Parents face huge challenges raising their children.
They develop strategies to meet each child's individual needs, while setting rules to ensure that all their children are treated fairly and get along with one another. To help their children value themselves and respect others, parents get them involved in supervised activities where they mix with other kids whose family upbringing, skin color, or religion differs from their own. Small steps taken early in life prepare children for the giant strides they will be expected to take as adults. Belonging to a parish can help children learn to love themselves and accept others. Children discover at liturgy, in religious education classes, and in parish activities that God has created them and loves them as they are, that God wants everybody to get along, and that Jesus, the Son of God, wants them to be his friend and help others.