A STRESSED-out mother who struck her two small children with a stick because they spilled bath water on the floor has been placed on a good-behaviour bond.

The Geelong Magistrates' Court was told the children, aged nine and five, received bruising to their thighs as a result of the assault.

The 29-year-old North Geelong woman 29, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of recklessly causing injury and assault with a weapon, the Geelong Advertiser reports.

Police prosecutor Leading Sen-Constable David Vanderpol said the woman was the mother of three children aged between two and nine. "In July, the children were in the bath, when the two oldest spilled water on the floor," he said.

"This made their mother angry and she struck both with a wooden stick."

The woman's lawyer Peter Epstein said his client had a number of medical issues, including anaemia, chronic jaw pain, heartburn and vitamin D deficiency.

Mr Epstein said his client was remorseful, had no priors and asked the court to consider placing her on a good-behaviour bond.

Magistrate Ron Saines said there was nothing more probable than children spilling water on the floor while having a bath but accepted the mother was probably under stress at the time.

She was placed on a nine-month good-behaviour bond with a condition she complete a personal counselling program by June 2013. No conviction was recorded.

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