Someone at work gave my son, Sean, a red balloon on a string, and you would have thought it was the moon! __1__ don’t often come to my three-year-old son. Nor me! I was thankful for my job at a day-care centre, which enabled me to afford my son’s education, but it didn’t pay much. I had been so full of __2__ before doing it. Now it seemed like I would be forever struggling. I __3__ to tie the balloon to Sean’s wrist for our walk to the car. “I’m already a __4__ boy!” he said, pulling his hand away.