The price of kids' shoes these days is enough to make you send them off to kindy - or school - in bare feet. Ah yes, just like the good old days when I was a lad. Okay, so I didn't go to school without shoes but bare feet were far more acceptable back then. These days, you don't see it so much.
Anyway, like I was saying, kids shoes sure are expensive, which is made even more sickening by the fact they grow out of them so damn quick.
My four-year-old Mia had been harping on about getting some boots like her mums for months. We finally gave in so off she went with my wife and my mum, who was in town for the week, to buy some boots. She wanted the high cut ones that come three quarters of the way up your shin. Or, biker boots, as Mia calls them.
Like I say, I wasn't there for the outing but when they got back they still looked a little dumb-founded by some of the prices they had just witnessed.
They were in a Ponsonby shoe shop - no, I'm not out to poo poo the exclusive Auckland strip, it's just that the store was located there - standing in front of rows of lovely little girls' boots with prices upwards of $200.