While the arti­cle lacks in cer­tain places, this brief look at Bill Gates Sr. and his rela­tion­ship with his son is an inter­est­ing read with a few amus­ing anec­dotes about the mostly elu­sive Gates family.

[Bill Gates Sr.] and Mary brought their son to a ther­a­pist. “I’m at war with my par­ents over who is in con­trol,” Bill Gates recalls telling the coun­selor. Report­ing back, the coun­selor told his par­ents that their son would ulti­mately win the bat­tle for inde­pen­dence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. […]

They enrolled their son in a school that they thought would give him more free­dom. That was the pri­vate Lake­side School, now known as the place where Bill Gates dis­cov­ered computers.

Mr. Gates says he began to real­ize, “Hey, I don’t have to prove my posi­tion rel­a­tive to my par­ents. I just have to fig­ure out what I’m doing rel­a­tive to the world.”