You know that your precious baby is reaching teenagerdom when...

[hennipenni]

she pinches all your makeup and promises to buy you some more with your own money!

when you can't find a mirror because she's nicked them all so she can check her hair from EVERY angle

they STOP talking

When they dont come out their room for about 3 years except to eat you out of house and home

you think there's a strange man upstairs, then you realise your son's voice has broken.. overnight

when do they come out of their rooms? (wail)

Well mines nearly 15 and hes still up there

random

it stinks in there too.

You mean i have silence and holing up in her room to look forward to?

Can't wait. I'll tell her that's the next stage!! When does its start!!

you find her mobile phone and she immediately blushes and says
"you didnt read my messages did you?"

just as you are walking out the door she says

"mum arent you going to change those trousers?"

When he gives you a disgusted look, when you ask him how to use punctuation in a text....followed by rolling eyes and sighing

When you buy a noew mobile phone and she's the only one who knows how to bluetooth.

Oh and you start mixing up her brs with your own when you're putting the washing away.

When she's approaching the car where you're waiting to pick her up and the only indication that she's seen you is the merest twitch of the lips and miniscule movement of the hand...

when they won't be seen dead with you

DD1 was sent a BRILLIANT card by my aunty:

TEENAGERS

Sick and tired of being bossed around by your stupid parents?

ACT NOW

Move out, get a job and start paying your own bills while you still know everything.

yes have seen that card-really true

They'd rather get soaked walking home from school then be seen in something as uncool as a coat

you get a phone call from school saying that they have to talk to you in person about the pictures on his/her mobile phone

Oh God, yes ... DD1 was drenched when she got back from school yesterday. Her jumper dried out nicely lying in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, of course.

Mo, haven't had the bra mix up yet but have mixed up our knickers before now!. So many of these ring oh so true!

Can second the getting wet! why do they think that the clothes drying fairy and the lunch box removing from school bag fairy will do everything that they can't?

Because said fairies DO do it all for them! Needless to say I picked the jumper up off the floor, dusted it down, smoothed it out and hung it over the radiator to dry.

Actually, it wasn't her school jumper, it was a random hoody thing. The school jumper has gone missing, although apparently "it's in my locker, Mummy, I'll bring it home tomorrow, I promise". I've heard that every day since the beginning of term.

ROFL - this is hysterical.

when, even though you know there are 6 hairbrushes in the house, yours is always missing

when there's the acrid stench of burning hair, before school, after school and before bed or is that just my beloved??

Don't get mixed up with the bras anymore - dd has overtaken me

And hairspray, Wisteria! Mind you I was worse at her age! No wonder there's a hole in the ozone layer, it was me and my mates in the 4th form toilets!