"I'm fine." If I had a dollar for every time a clearly-not-fine child told me they were fine, I could fund my own research study. Here's what I've learned: when kids say "fine," they're not lying. They're telling us something important about their capacity to communicate about their inner world at that moment. Why Kids Struggle to Communicate About Stress Developmental Factors  Young brains are still developing the neural pathways that connect emotions to language. What feels