After a long day at work, Jessica Stilwell sat down amid the clutter left by her three daughters and decided enough was enough.

She took to her Facebook page and said she would no longer clean up after the girls she jokingly referred to as "basement trolls".

Jessica Stilwell ... appeared on the Today programme after her story went viral on the internet.

"This working mom has gone on strike," she wrote.

Mrs Stilwell, a social worker, did not tell her twin daughters Olivia and Peyton, 12, and their sister Quinn, 10, about her "experiment". Her husband, Dylan, was in on the plot.