Mom and Dad's Driver's Training Should Include Changing the Tire

So, here I was last evening, riding the fashionable upscale Sandy Springs Suburbs looking for crime and perhaps a half-price burger joint since I was low on cash. I spied a nice SUV on the side of the interstate with the flashers on and an obvious flat and quite frankly, a demolished tire. 
I hit the blues and took my own life in hand as I exited the car amid the evening traffic still rushing by as we hit the dusk of the day. The wind blew my hair with upset me because when my hair blows up in the wind, it doesn't come back down thus giving me the look of a rooster or homeless guy who swiped a police uniform. Anyway, the young driver of this car and his female passenger were sitting patiently, only five feet from the bumper of any one of a thousand derranged evening rush-hour maniacs with tunnel vision on that lane and thinking how they could zip in and out of the traffic lanes to save perhaps two minutes of drive time which is so very important. I asked the young driver if he had help on the way. He did. I asked if he knew how to change a tire. He didn't. Quite frankly, he was in a bad spot being that his tire was shredded and he was on the emergency lane of 285. 
Well, that leads to this: By the time your child hits the all-too-soon driving age, part of your home driving system should include how to change the tire.  Too few kids and adults as well, have no clue meaning they're stuck wherever the tire goes down. There's no need. 
Here's your hint how to be a legend in the eyes of your children as they re-tell this story for years and years. 
Get the car on a level spot and teach them how to use the (crummy) jack and lug nut tool. Better yet, do them and you a favor and purchase a 3-ton floor jack and a four-way lug nut wrench so they won't have to figure out that odd looking thing that's supposed to raise the car. My suggestion, your choice. 
Take your child and carefully practice changing the tire on the car. Do it over a couple of times and then let them do it starting with ensuring the car is in park with the emergency brake on. Show them where the spot is on the car frame that you attach the jack and then how to loosen the nuts, remove the tire, replace, and tighten the nuts again before lowering the jack, tossing it in the trunk and getting on down the road. At midnight on a secondary road, you want them mobile again as soon as possible. 
Once said child has affirmed that he or she is good on the instructions, smile and tell them how much better you fell about it. 
Later that night, let the air out of one of the tires of the car they'll certainly want to use. When they come to you looking for help, tell them to change the tire and then look on. Let them go beginning to end without instruction and see how they do. If not well, you can review and then let them at it again. Once hands on, they'll remember faster. Better in the driveway than on the road. Also, remember that if the tire blows in a hot spot like 285 and the risk of changing the tire is too great, you can drive on the rim for a quarter mile or so without damage. Even if you buy another rim, getting off the busy interstate is more important. Also remember that the DOT HERO trucks are out there. Don't let your kids hit the road without any knowledge on tire changing. It's not hard and can get them out of a jam.