It was in the winter of 1925 when a Swiss scientist by the name of Jean Piaget embarked on an experiment that would forever revolutionise human psychology. His laboratory was not the sterile room with the equipment, but the nursery with the sun, and his test subjects were not the anonymous volunteers, but his own newborn children: Jacqueline, Lucienne and Laurent (Cherry, 2025). Jean Piaget arrived with nothing but a notebook and a motivating curiosity, spending years on the floor, observing his babies drop spoons, cuddle beneath blankets, and struggle with the magic of a disappearing toy (Piaget, 1936). ​It was a process that was borderline domestic, but it gave birth to a revolution. Jean Piaget invalidated the belief that children were just miniature adults having empty heads by using his own kids as a biological experiment within their natural environment (Cherry, 2025). He instead opened up a world in…