Sometimes I wish my husband, three children and my animals (4 dogs, 5 cats) were controlled by remote control, I'd mute and pause them the minute they all started jabbering, whining, demanding, screaming, fighting, or just being generally annoying or buggy even after I've told them repeatedly that I need 30 minutes of alone time and they keep pestering and conveniently forgetting that they have another parent they can bother. I'd pause and mute them for a few hours and do some heavy duty pampering for myself, relax, watch a full episode of some mindless show without having to pause it every time the alarm of "Mom, Ma, Mommy, Babe, Ruff, Meow" goes off, thereby making it impossible to finish a show that is 45 minutes long but takes me a bloody week to get through because they simply WON'T SHUT UP!!!
Now in all actuality, I love them and I love that they need me, but dammit if I don't long for quiet.