Teenagerdom is...

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

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).

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.

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.

Bags - I remember that homework diary one!

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

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

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

Yes.

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!

.... 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

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