WHILE I empathise with parents who face the inevitable expense associated with raising and educating their children (August 7), it annoys me to see parents begrudging their children €120-€170 for schoolbooks while simultaneously sporting neat haircuts (€40-€180) and fetching handbags (€10-500) after having filled their ’06 car with a tank of petrol (€40) in order to drive to the nearest post office to collect the children’s allowance.