According to Joesph Tooley, Ph.D, Psychologist Marriage & Family Therapist and Life Coach there are 11 traits that your child maybe becoming a teenager. Here is a brakedown of those traits so parents beware.
1. Highly Influenced by Peer Pressure
Adolescents may need to reject your standards for the standards of their friends or to be down with the "IN CROWD" This includes wanting a tattoo, getting ear piercings, Mohawk haircuts, skinny jeans, smoking, drinking, or joining gangs.
2. DEVELOPS UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIPS
Teenagers change friends constantly. They may have a different boyfriend or girlfriend every other week. Best friends become enemies. "I don't like her anymore because she didn't speak to me yesterday."
3.TEENAGERS CAN BE CRUEL
Children may tease and pick on one another. Name-calling is notorious in school. Words like "You are gay or " "HOMO" and stupid are popular verbal insults on the playground these days. In the classroom and in the hallways terms like nerd and retard are still being used. The old cliche' "sticks and stones" may brake my bones but words will never hurt me..is simply not true.
4.COMMUNICATION BECOMES A PROBLEMS.
Your Teenager may begin to speak in One words sentence.
Parent: How was school today?
Teenager:FINE
Parent: What did you learn today?
Teenager: NOTHING
5. ISOLATION FROM OTHERS.
Your teenager would rather be alone in his room than participate in family activities. They would rather hang with their "homeboys"play on the PS2 for hours and hours, talking on the telephone or sitting at the computer rather than hang with their old-fashion parents. The classic hip-hop song by Will Smith entitled "Parents Don't Understand" explains how teenagers feel. Take a listen to the remix verison featuring Lil Romeo.
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6.TIME ALONE BECOMES SUPER IMPORTANT
7.KNOW-IT-ALL ATTITUDE
Your teenager will reject your good advice and adopt the attitude that "I already know that...Duh"
8.MOOD SWINGS BECOME EXTREME
8.MOOD SWINGS BECOME EXTREME
Happy one minute; sad the next! It's the life of every teenage girl. She loves me; she hates me. 
9. BODY IMAGE BECOME EXTREME
As their bodies change, your children will become self-conscious and embarrassed about the slightest flaw. Pimples, blemishes, freckles, hairstyles, weight and braces. Girls may ask why they can't wear make-up. They will say "I can't go out looking like this
10. RESULTS OF ACTIONS ARE NOT CONSIDERED
Your teen will act in the "here and now" without considering the long-term results of their behavior...
11. INDEPENDENCE IS ALL IMPORTANT
Teenagers feel that they have a right to do everything. They feel highly insulted when they have to ask permission to do anything 
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