One Calgary mother was so fed up with her messy children that she went on strike: she refused to pick up after anyone for six days. Now, with her self-imposed ban on housework made public, Jessica Stilwell has become a media sensation.
Back in 2004, then-"As It Happens" host Mary Lou Finlay talked with a mother who moved out of her house and into a tent on her front lawn to protest her messy children.