Your experience of fatherhood is something I haven't had, and so I won't take issue with the way the scene in question resonates with your experience.

As an aside, all of this reminds me of a great passage in the novel:

"So you've taught me everything else. Tell me how to say no to people in a way they'll like." The Don moved to sit behind the big desk. "You can't say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes.' Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble. But I'm old-fashioned, you're the new modern generation, don't listen to me."