Why are parents cruel to their children and how can one avoid making the same mistakes?

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.