Do you frogmarch your adult children through life?
Or, as your children grow and mature, do you gradually let them go? Do you treat your adult children as you did when they were newborn?
If I had any say I would frogmarch them through life. Get the law degree. Marry that girl. Have this many kids. Live in this location.
Of course, I'm not omnipotent, omniscience, or omnipresent.
This is an interesting difference between Apostolics and Reformers. What is the best corresponding relationship in human terms to the Biblical God-child relationship? I think Apostolics see it as parent to adult child. When my children are grown I will honor their opinions, and give them respect. That matches the Apostolic view of free will. Of course, when they are grown they will no longer need me to provide for them much because they can take care of most things themselves. I will "let them go" as you say. They will no longer be completely dependent on me. I will see them as younger semi-equals.
As a Reformer, I really do not think we ever get beyond the stage of comparative "toddler-hood". :) No matter how grown up, smart, and mature in the faith I think I am, I will ALWAYS be COMPLETELY dependent on Him for everything. There is nothing I can do for myself, it must be done for me, especially salvation. This is Calvinism. I think it is a very interesting difference indeed.