When my daughter was born my wife stopped working outside of the home. What we came to understand was that in the past most families had a stay-at-home Mom. Everyone told us that it wasn't going to work because we were used to having two incomes and cutting that income almost in half was going to cause problems. What we did was quite simple. We lived just like our parents did. We didn't eat out very often. We did a lot of our shopping at flea markets and often just did without things that we didn't need. We stayed out of debt and for entertainment we did the old things like playing cards, freezing homemade ice cream, camping, fishing, and spending a lot of time with family.
When my kiddo went to kindergarten my wife went to college and I took over a lot of the chores that she had taken care of in the past. When summer came my daughter usually worked with/for me. I paid her pretty well and she bought her own school clothes and learned how to handle money. LOL, that first year when she bought her own school clothes she went top-line expensive. By Christmas, she was sick of wearing that same getup two or three times a week. That was the first year that she wanted clothes for Christmas instead of toys or things that were fun. After that, she became a pretty good shopper and handled her money responsibly, and never had that problem again. It must have worked she is an accountant supervisor and works for the state now.