This is exactly me but with my 7 year old Nephew. He plays it on Switch and originally kept asking me how to build things so i would have to look them up and try to work them out. Now when I get to see him he is miles ahead of my knowledge and has built working rollercoasters and all sorts of things.
I am going to blow his mind with it when the lockdown restrictions lift enough to allow visitors indoors as the PS4 version I have now has the Playstation VR upgrade so he can properly walk around in Minecraft.