Like most 10-year-olds, Malia Obama says fathers can be embarrassing ... especially when they are running for president

She recalled one time when a friend came over to their house in Chicago and her father, - ever in campaign mode - shook the girl's hand to say hello.

Malia recalled telling him: 'You really don't shake kids' hands that much ... You just wave or say hi.'

The schoolgirl told the story during an interview given by the whole family on the TV show 'Access Hollywood'.

Loving father: Barack Obama hugs his daughter Malia

They were interviewed last week in Butte, Montana, where the Illinois senator took the family to help him with the double task of campaigning on the Fourth of July and celebrating Malia's 10th birthday that day.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, typically frown upon media coverage and photographs of their daughters, but allowed "Access Hollywood" to interview Malia and her younger sister, Sasha, seven.

Malia seemed excited by the possibility of moving to the White House if her father is elected in November.

She and her sister would be the youngest kids to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since Amy Carter arrived as a nine-year-old in 1981.

'I enjoy decorating so I get this whole new room to do whatever I want,' Malia said.

In the running: Obama, right, and his wife Michelle with their two daughters, Malia, left, and Sasha

When asked what they do that makes their parents mad, Sasha said 'whining.' Malia said arguing with each other.

'Arguing is the worst thing because then they sit us down and say, "You know you guys are the best thing that you have in your life".

'We're never going to get something as good as each other.'

Barack and Michelle Obama also discuss their clothes, communicating when he is away campaigning and how they keep the romance alive.