growing pains

My sister has been very busy attending trade fairs for agricultural produces, so the last week, I took the job of babysitting my five year old nephew, with help of his grandparents.

We don't meet very often and the last time I've seen him was almost six months ago. This little boy has grown taller and bigger, and more mature, very childish mature of course. He has some toys at my place and excitedly he picked out all of his collections, like guns and cars and others. hHis favourite game is still driving all vehicles, in his own way, sure of all differences and skills. He invents some new ones, like flying trains, human digging vehicle etc.

But surprisingly I noticed he's grown beyond that. Now he is now liking to check all maps and computer games. And our favorite game together is to open google maps and check cities we know, like Shanghai, Beijing and Hangzhou, how we can drive between our neighbourhood to all train stations and bus stations.After a while, we like to dig bombs on windows game.

Children grow at such a surprsing race, beyond our or at least my expectation. My parents always murmur that now it's not easy to fool him any more. (So sometimes they become pretty violent to force him, especially when this little boy doesn't listen, or refuses to eat, as well when he doesn't behave up to their standards. Although sometimes I think my parents' behavior code relly restraining, for example, no jumping on sofa, no running around without slippers on, etc.

Growing up is really incredible thing, and compared to that, I always think ok, his growing up meanwhile mirrors my aging. And maybe that's the possible reason why my parents feel and thus act more strongly about that?