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By Pam Parker Erie Times-News staff blogger
Pam Parker's blog takes on everything from women's fun to momisms to lifestyles around Lake Erie and real estate. She'll take you down Memory Lane, up through sports and fun and off the grid. Get ready for laughs — it's more than just Pam. It's Pamdemonium.   Read more about this blog.
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Posted: July 8th, 2012
Wimbledon tennis fever on TV today




Yesterday was Williams day at Wimbledon. Serena Williams won the ladies singles title — her fifth Wimbledon. She defeated Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 5-7, 6-2. Hours later, she teamed with her sister Venus — who also has five Wimbledon singles titles — to win their fifth Wimbledon ladies doubles title against Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, 7-5, 6-4. The victories are very sweet for these sisters. In 2010, Serena Williams thought she would never play again. She had suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Venus has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder.
Today, Scotland’s Andy Murray takes on tennis legend Roger Federer, of Switzerland, in the mens final.  The tennis coverage starts on ESPN at 8 a.m. (the live match starts at 9 a.m.), with the  rebroadcast at 3 p.m. on ABC.
Pam Parker, an avid tennis player, is the mom of three, stepmom of three, gramPam to one and editor of the award-winning Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.
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Posted: February 27th, 2012
Story time, favorite family reads

You want to be a good parent and read to your kids, and/or have your kids read to you, but what’s good to read? Find their interests. You don’t have to buy new books — go to the library, hit garage sales, and have fun. Here are some of my favorites:

We found some fairy tales that were pretty funny. ‘The True Story of the Three Little Pigs,’ by A. Wolf was laugh-out-loud funny. A. Wolf debunks the story that he killed the pigs. It helps, of course, if your kids have heard the real tale.

Another series of fractured fairy tales my sister bought to torture me. Every page of each fairy tale of

fered choices of what you wanted to happen next, and it could take hours to read one of those books. Bedtime delayed. I can’t find these books. Anywhere. I must have been very good at hiding them.

A series of Chatterbox books by Roger Hargreaves held my daughter’s attention for years. Here’s a youtube reading you’ll love.

These simple books include a series of 49 Mr Men (dates back to 1971) and another 40 or so Little Miss (got its start in 1981) books that will steal your heart.

Hargreaves was an advertising guy who dabbled in publishing — so you’ve got to love the creativity in them. I did, and so did the kids.

My boys loved sports and science. We had subscriptions to kids’ sports and nature magazines and that makes it easy. ESPN Kids (twice a month) and Sports Illustrated Kids (monthly) offered publications that they often fought over. My daughter liked adventure.

As they got older, they read all the Goosebumps books — scary and trendy.  The Newbery Award winners were always great. We all read Harry Potter, too. Oprah has a list for every age group. The bottom line is no matter what your kids like, you can find something to read, and it can be fun for all of you.

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