We are now up to date with Call the Midwife.  Those who are fans know the last season ended with an exchange between a nervous expectant mum and a coworker, a grandfather who had no good role model when he began his own parenting journey many years earlier.  Instead of expounding upon deep paternal philosophy he offered just this, that in the end it really boiled down to proximity.  Staying in the game. 

This is it, I believe. We are so very flawed.  We did not have perfect examples and we cannot be perfect for our children either.  We can, however continue to be there, to walk alongside them down this sometimes  - often – messy road.