La Trottinette, located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, was inspired by the Maison Verte concept created by Françoise Dolto in Paris in 1979.
Françoise Dolto, a pediatrician and psychoanalyst, helped to recognize the child as a person in his or her own right.
Its concept has spanned time and space, and today exists in all French-speaking cantons and in many European and Latin American countries.
La Trottinette was born in 1996 and the association was created in February 1998.