Teenagerdom is...

....ringing your mother up at work and announcing you've dyed your hair red

.... ringing your mother up at work and confessing that you have neglected to inform her that there's a parents' evening after school, and the appointment with the history teacher is in half an hour

Shall I go on

Telling you in the morning that they forgot to say they need the ingredients for a shepherd's pie for cookery second period that day!

Yes.

Getting you to sign the page of the homework diary for next week as well while you're at it.

keeping your sarong on on the beach in the hope that your mother won't notice you've had your navel pierced

Telling your mum that the temporary tattoo on your calf will disappear within 5 years (12 years ago)

Bags - I remember that homework diary one!

Sitting at home seething while your older brother is allowed out to paint the town red! It's just NOT FAIR!

Teetering about on high heels in spite of the fact that you hate them.

Telling your mum that Katy the girl who lived over the Road from us had by mistake taken DS1s year end school report home with her !! but by the way she has just left to go on holiday for a month to her nanna's in USA.

Climbing out of bedroom windows when you've been grounded.

Bringing your girl clothes and your make up to your friend's house to change into before going to the party because you know his mother (me) is too thick to realise that you're a cross-dresser (I thought he was a New Romantic).

Everyone else is wrong except them and their friends who know everything!

Nervously parking on a hill shortly after passing driving test and pulling the handbrake on so tightly the AA has to be called out to release it.

In my case, being married and having a mortgage. ( No children though, not until I was nearly 23.)

Having to celebrate your 21st birthday when it's really your 18th because you've been going in that pub so long you can't let them realise that you were underage all that time.

vampirequeen. I'd have held it in a different pub!

Borrowing Mum's bike and leaving it outside leisure centre after which it was never seen again.

Thinking your grown up enough at 16 to get married.

Repeating the constant refrain that everyone else's mother/father/parent let's their teenager.......insert whatever it is you've just said 'no' to!

vampire two of my sisters had similar problems.

pranging your mothers car..... and then totalling it, the first time you are allowed to drive it again after a three month prohibition for the first prang!

Begging your mother to interrupt her Saturday night's viewing to taxi you to your party so you can have a drink.

Oh no, wait a minute, that's my 43 year old DD!!

Telling your mother on the day baby daughter has stood on the dishwasher and demolished it that you have had your head shaved. It wasn't anywhere near as bad as she said because middle daughter prone to exaggeration but she got into BIG trouble anyway.

Do you have to be a teenager to do teenagery things?