I've dealt with this properly right?

[Mummyto2munchkins]

Finished work and went to pick DC up as normal. Popped to the shop on the way home to get some yogurts for DC.
DD (4 in 3 weeks) turns round and says to me "mummy why is she so fat" -(I was mortified!)
I responded with some people are fat some people are thin some are tall some are small. Do you like it when people call you small? DD said no. So I said you shouldn't call people fat as it may upset them the same as you get upset.

Please tell me I dealt with this correctly? I had no idea what to do/say. It was so out of the blue!

You dealt with it perfectly :)

It sounds like you handled it just right imo. Well done

Ouch. Difficult. I repeat "It's not nice to comment on other people's appearance" like a parrot, avoiding eye contact, until we/they have left the area tbh

My dd did this once, I almost suffocated her to shut her up and went to my car and cried so you definitely handled it better than me

Yes you did well. Good move asking her if she liked being called small!

DD is smaller than her friends at nursery and also 'big school' so she often gets called small bless her

@CalmdownJanet

You username is very apt if you want to your car and cried because your DC asked about someone being fat!!!

When DS1 was 3 he pointed at the person in front of us in the supermarket queue and said (very loudly!) ‘why is that man dressed up as a lady’ - I replied ‘because he wants to’ - although he put his basket down and walked out. I still cringe more than 20 years on!

Perfect response.

Really crunchymum , like really? It was a lighthearted comment, but yes as it happens, I did because the man was walking, clearly making an effort, looked crest fallen and I have a morbidly obese family member who gets comments all the time so I know how much it hurts him and I was upset after seeing that man's reaction that he would feel the same. So maybe I just have a heart, but as I say it was a lighthearted comment that didn't require your two cents worth

Mine turned round (shortly after I had a second trimester miscarriage of twins) and said really loudly "mummy you had two babies in your tummy does that man have lots of babies in his" His wife found it hilarious the man and I did not

@Loyaultemelie that's awful but fantastic

You handled it well especially given you had little time to think of a response.

We were at a pub recently having dinner and I could hear my ds (who is 5) saying something over and over again. When I tuned into him and listened he was saying "mom, that lady has a beard" over and over again. It was actually a man with a pony tail sitting at the table next to us and I was too embarrassed to say anything other than ask my child to sir down quietly