The author, Niro Feliciano.

Niro Feliciano is a mom, author and therapist with a master of science in social work. She’s a TODAY show contributor and author of the TODAY.com column “Is This Normal?”

It’s been seven years since the traumatic event (trauma with a little T) — seven years of sprinting to soccer, basketball and lacrosse several times a week, working from the parking lot when practice runs late; seven years of signing permission slips for museum trips, musicals and field days, and volunteering when possible with my packed patient schedule; seven years of dropping off cupcakes and allergy-free rainbow pencils for class birthdays.

And yet for years, my 10-year-old, Carolina, recalled with unbelievable clarity the day I forgot to send her to preschool in pajamas for PJ day.

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