Still, she and her mother are clearly engaged in something more intense than the normal mother-adolescent version of warfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: How To Handle A Teenage Temper] Reference

Your niece and, incidentally, your sister-in-law, are both dealing with feelings that go beyond the normal - but nonetheless painful -- mother-adolescent daughter conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: How To Handle A Teenage Temper] Reference