A couple of people stopped me recently congratulating me on my win. "What win?" I asked them. "The £10,000 you won by finding the red KIT KAT."

This was news to me, I can tell you. What on earth were they talking about?

It transpires that KIT KAT are running a competition which you can win by breaking open your KIT KAT and finding a special red wafer inside. But I don't even eat chocolate, let alone enter competitions, so how could I have won?

Then they told me. My son had been going round telling everyone that I had found the red wafer and so had won the prize.

They didn't believe him at first but when quizzed he was apparently 'very convincing' and the clincher came when his babysitter asked what we would be doing with the money and he immediately said 'pay off the mortgage'.

I am quite open with my son about money and he seems to have a good grasp of financial concepts so this didn't surprise me. But was this a case of taking financial education too far? I didn't know whether to be proud of him for grasping a difficult financial concept for a 10 year old or to be angry with him for lying.

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