It's because his son, Brady, a fifth-grader at Dingeman Elementary in Scripps Ranch, entered him in a “Best Moms” contest – and Chuck was chosen one of 50 finalist honorees. So many challenges Other special moms are wives of deployed military personnel who juggle two and sometimes three jobs while raising children and functioning as both mom and dad. Larissa Snyder, a fifth-grader at Lexington Elementary, praises her mom for staying by her side when she was in the hospital for almost a year battling cancer. San Diego ninth-grader Taylor Carpenter describes his single mom as having a “heart so big that it cannot be X-rayed . Diego Drulhe-Navarro, a fourth-grader at Poway's Morning Creek Elementary, says his mom, a divorcé who works with autistic children, doesn't make much money, but that doesn't stop the family from helping others. Read More