In an interview with NBC News, President Obama and the First Lady have a failsafe plan for discouraging their daughters from getting tattoos or engaging in other rebellious acts: If you can't beat them, join them -- and then show the entire world.

"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. And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo,'" Obama said. "And our thinking is that might dissuade them from thinking that somehow that's a good way to rebel.

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