While some of us may have moms who are very up-to-date when it comes to technology, others of us have had to teach our moms, usually more than once, how to use technology. Below are just some of the few things taught to moms.

1. How to take a picture.

Whether it is point and shoots or phone cameras, not all moms understand how to avoid motion blur...or people photobombing in the background.

"I had to teach my mom how to take a picture and get it in focus. she would always take a ton of pictures out of focus and with random people in the background," Gavin Muller, Bellevue College student, said.

2. How to text on a phone without a full keyboard.

I remember my mom starting out with the Nokia "brick" phone. (Let's be honest... I truly only remember because it later became my first phone.) I had to explain that to get a letter such as "c", you had to press the "2" button quickly three times while the letter was still highlighted.

She now has an iPhone 5s and is a pretty good texter now. Go Mom! (and yay for full keyboards!)

3. How to close tabs on the computer.

While many moms know how to open new tabs, some of them forget to close them and then wonder why their computer is running slow. Sometimes, there is even five tabs open just for Facebook.

"She had like 2 million tabs open. I had to teach her how to close them. It’s just way too many tabs," Muller said.

4. Apps.

We've all probably had one moment where your mom has said she wished she could do something on her phone. Our response being the typical "there's an app for that" statement. After that, then you have to explain the difference between the App Store and the Itunes stores.

5. How to use Emojis.

After seeing them on Facebook or in texts from friends, many moms decided they wanted to use emojis too.

"After downloading them and showing her how to use them, she spent 10 minutes looking through them to find just the right ones for a birthday text," Jennifer Ortiz, Air Force enlistee, said. "A few weeks ago I noticed her conversation with my cousin on her phone consisted purely of emojis."

6. Gifs don't have sound.

Trying to explain that it is like a video without sound or a moving picture while they continue to turn their phone up to full volume and tap on the gif to get it to play can be difficult. You won't even have time to get to the whole "gif" or "jif" debate.

7. How to copy and paste.

This usually starts off with having to explain the concept of highlighting. You don't even bring up the idea of cut and paste because that is a whole new tutorial, also, you definitely avoided the keyboard shortcuts.

8. The magic of the tab button.

Rather than pressing the space bar 10 times, you can press "tab" to indent.

9. You can't zoom in on Instagram.

"My mom kept thinking that you could zoom in on Instagram, so I had to make sure she would never like anything by accident," Jasleen Singh, UC Davis student, said.

10. Itunes isn't free.

My mom kept asking me to make her mix CDs of her favorite artists (roughly 20+ artists) on Itunes. I had to explain that it would probably be about $200 to do that.

11. To save pictures rather than screenshot.

I remember listening to my friend explain that screenshotting was for things that were not pictures and that you should save pictures, rather than screenshot, so you don't end up with an ugly border around the photo.

12. How hashtags work.

While hashtagging is typically used to group photos by their content so other users can see, many moms will use them as if they are a second language.

While they may not always have caught on quickly to new tech, getting funny emojis from your mom (or autocorrect fails) is pretty fun.