Parenting

Until Christmas Eve Insensitive Santa, specializing in Central Victoria's worst children, will appear at the Marketplace. He plans to punish those kids on his naughty list with his belt or bundle of birch sticks. Insensitive Santa comes from a military background and spent 20 years...

A new study was released today. Results show 100% of kids who sing that Daddy Finger or Baby Shark song miss Christmas. Kids have been playing the same 3 YouTube videos over and over ad-nausem. Parents everywhere have cancelled their Big W Toy Sale...

A Parkrun fan has drawn criticism for the first name he has chosen for his recently born son. Jim Res has angered his wife and relatives by calling his son Kenny Res, named after Kennington Reservoir. "I completed my 50th parkrun and wanted to celebrate...

“I really want to bond with my son,” said Catherine Johnson, 47, of Bendigo. In the hope of spending quality time with her son, Mrs Johnson suggested they ‘Netflix and Chill’ last week. “He’s always having Susan over for chilling and Netflixing in his room,...

An Eaglehawk Dad has relived his glory days as a semi-amateur skateboarder today at the Eaglehawk skate park while trying to fit in with his son and his friends. Richard 'Dicky' Tarocash bought his son 13-year-old Jared on a father and son outing but Jared refused...

A 10-year-old girl announced to her parents today she was hungry but couldn't find anything to eat. The daughter of Keith and Sandra Schmelt from Strath Heights arrived home yesterday from school pick up and stood for 15 minutes staring at a full pantry. "We...

As many as 10,000 parents are expected to descend on the Bendigo for ‘Parentalies’ Week, which celebrates kids going back to school. The parent's version of Schoolies ends 6 weeks of misery for both parents and kids. Authorities are determined not to let the fun turn...

School is back this week but not all news is good news for one parent. Mother of a 12-year-old boy has discovered a colony of a super mould after her son failed to clean out his school bag last December. "The contents of the rotten bag...

An officer issued a warning to a dog yesterday for leaving her owner in her car while she played at the dog park, police said. Bendigo police responded about 6:32 pm to the dog park in California Gully for a report of a human locked...

An unnamed cashier in a local supermarket was left red-faced today after accidentally serving his mum. His mother was wearing a Collingwood guernsey, activewear and Ugg-Crocs. She placed to put the pack of earplugs and condoms on the conveyer belt not realising her 16-year-old son...