Why are parents cruel to their children and how can one avoid making the same mistakes?
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outcome
"Honor your child as a unique guest, not as an extension of your unfulfilled dreams; love them for love's sake, allowing them the freedom to unfold into their own being."
According to Osho, parents become cruel when they treat children as extensions to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and to gain a false immortality, using them as means rather than honoring them as ends. To avoid repeating this, love for love's sake: revere the child as a unique guest, drop projections and ideologies, refuse to mold, and give unconditional respect, space, and freedom to unfold.
Don’t use kids to finish your dreams; just love them and let them become themselves.
Why this matters practically
- Check your motive before advising: is it your dream or the child's?
- Replace pressure with presence: listen, support their interests, avoid molding or comparisons.
- Treat them with reverence: offer love, safety, and space so their individuality can unfold.
- Replace pressure with presence: listen, support their interests, avoid molding or comparisons.
- Treat them with reverence: offer love, safety, and space so their individuality can unfold.
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