Me (35 male) and my son (9 years old) have a great relationship. He lives with his mom in another state (she decided to move) but I see him often. He spends summers with me and during the school year I go to see him about every 3 weeks. I’m a truck driver so during my work week, if I’m within a certain amount of miles of him, I try to go and pop in as well. I am well aware this isn’t the ideal situation to be raised in but I have I have to choose between the pay I get at my job and the potential pay in the city that they are in. Anyway we have a pretty good relationship. I love my son very much and I basically do everything for him on the financial end. Me and his moms have a very good relationship. I’m very critical of how I parent him because my dad wasn’t always the best dad. He is such a good kid and listens to me (sometimes has issues with his mom) and does pretty decent at school.

Yesterday I picked him up for spring break and I’m 8 hours into the drive, five hrs there and three hr back and I look over and see him crying. Once I noticed this, I pulled over because I thought something was wrong. When I asked him what’s wrong, he said he was crying because he couldn’t find this thing in his Roblox game. Now I’m pretty understanding but my son is obsessed with Roblox. It’s the only thing that he loves to do. So I’m like “dude it’s just a game why are you crying over a game you’re too invested”. So he cries more and then I get kind of annoyed and told him to turn the game off. After about 5 times telling him, I took the game and turned it off. He started crying even more and that got me kinda upset because why are you so addicted to this game. So I told him he needs to take a break from the game since he is way too invested too the point he is crying because of something in the game. Anyways he kind of ramped up the theatrics and I threatened to delete his game if he doesn’t chill out. I’m surprised at this point because he usually listens but he started ramping up the theatrics again. I’m saying theatrics but it could be genuine I guess. long story short I deleted his game and told him no game should have you acting like this and he cried the rest of the way to my home.

After I got to the apartment and he stopped crying and we talked about it, he realized he kind of overreacted to not finding whatever it was in the game and now I feel kinda bad for deleting his game

I do want to help him find other passions outside of Roblox but I also don’t need him to stop all together.

So anyways I’m feeling like a horrible dad because , according to him, his progress is deleted.

So AITAH and can you retrieve progress from a deleted game? This is on his iPad btw