They spend their time packing junk food-free lunch boxes instead of Vuitton briefcases. They’ve traded courtroom skirmishes for PTA dustups. And only once in a while do they think about whether their Ivy League degrees prepared them for their current job as minivan chauffeur.<\/p>\n
Welcome to the lush, lavish suburbs of the Peninsula, where a baby boom among well-to-do women is giving rise to the moniker Woodside Four\u201d\u201dnamed after women who love motherhood so much they have not two, not three, but four kids. Having escaped cramped, child-unfriendly San Francisco, where schools are shuttering and backyards are as teeny as a $500,000 condo, these women traded up with bigger homes, husbands with bigger paychecks, and, of course, bigger families. And before you hurl a barrage of Stepford comments their way, consider this: while many wealthy city women prefer to indulge in the three Cs\u201d\u201dclothing, careers, and cosmetic surgery\u201d\u201dWoodside, Los Altos, and Atherton moms are only OD’ing on children.<\/p>\n
“My standing joke is that if it was the 1950s, I’d have eight kids,” says Woodside PTA president Liz Dressel, a mother of four girls ages three to ten….<\/p>\n