For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
So is the Mormon God a ball buster, for which there is not enough room for his ego and that of his own, adult child?
Are children really submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to his or her father in all things? In my experience, sometimes, just as in my experience adults are sometimes. At other times, I see children kick against the pricks, inpatient as any being ever is, selfish and ego-driven. If anything, I think adults exhibit this list of attributes from Mosiah much more frequently in their behavior than children typically do.