MEMPHIS, TN- Area fifth-grader Joey Backhouse, 11, repeated the word 'sucks' 10 times in a span of two minutes today, just so people would hear his mention of the word 'sucks.' "That sucks," the boy said, after hearing of his friend's bad weekend. After no one else on the playground seemed to hear him, he repeated the phrase again, more quietly. After still receiving no noticeable attention, Backhouse said, "That really sucks!" He then reportedly kept revising his statement and repeating it over and over until he concluded that no one was going to pay attention.
"Apparently, this was a desperate plea for attention," said Jon Whittenhouse, PhD., author of the parenting book, 'The Need For Cool: Why Your Child Needs Peer Acceptance and Why They Will Shout Anything To Get It.' "It seems as though Joey just wanted to seem 'cool' by the use of a 'big-kid' word. Unfortunately, he failed."
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