Tattoos are back in style, leaving parents, including President Barack Obama, scrambling for ways to stop their kids from getting inked.
Obama's solution, which he explained on the "Today" show this morning, might just be the most brilliant of all. He posits that if Sasha or Malia ever decide to get a tattoo, so will he -- a matching one in the exact same place.
"What we've said to the girls is, 'If you guys ever decided you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo in the same place,'" he said.
Obama's daughters have referred to him as "just the right amount of embarrassing," something the president is using to his advantage when it comes to curb rebelliousness in his young girls.
" ... we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo," he said. "And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that somehow that's a good way to rebel."
Obama isn't all discipline, as he told "Today" that he trusts his daughters to be honest, believes that he has a healthy level of communication with them, takes his daughter's music suggestions seriously and tries to demonstrate a general sense of hipness.
Recently, Michelle Obama garnered some shock for comments she made about the girl's parenting, indicating that she sometimes felt like a single mother.
According to the CS Monitor, President Obama took no offense to his wife's comments and stated that the comment actually held some truth.
"There's no doubt that there have been times where Michelle probably felt like a single mom," he said. "I know that before we got here ... when I was running for the US Senate, for president, there were times where I wouldn't see her for a week and she was still working and had to look after the girls."
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