In general, when a subject is asked about his feeelings of his past experiences, he is likely to only tell the part that he chooses to remember. Those are the things he values or tend to add value to his personality. It is a very individual case on what one would value in this occasions.
So the answer that this author father told his daughter about what he felt in that particular experience is already phsycologically twisted towards his own value. It is generally a biased answer.