The author acknowledged that was a bit much and pivoted it to a game that his son loves, who put you in charge of taking that away from him?

> This seemed a bit beyond him [...] But the whole conversation had given me a different idea. "Hey, I have a good idea for a game," I said. [...] He immediately liked this game and it has been a huge hit; he wants to play it all the time.

It's probably made even better by being 'the game that daddy reads about/does at work'.