Instead of having a kids say the darndest things attitude about it, you wanna teach them why that's wrong.

Jesus we're talking about little kids! They question everything and yes sometimes they don't have the greatest timing. You'll find most people have a sense of humour about it. I've been asked multiple times by children why I have big boobies lol

Or you know simply teach them that such questions may be hurtful to an individual. It was a child asking they don't understand that their words can be hurtful. That's a parents job to teach them, I think how op responded was actually kind of rude there are much better ways of handling such situations.

Sometimes kids catch you off guard with those kinds of questions and you can't always think of the most politically correct way if handling it. Sometimes the lessons have to be taught after the fact when you have had a chance to absorb what just happened. Most parents are embarrassed when their kids do this, and most people don't think, they just react when they are embarrassed.

Parents should be armed w a few general responses , like "why are you asking, honey?" or " it's impolite to talk about others" etc. This buys you time to formulate an appropriate answer, to whatever situation presents itself.

good point there