You see, just last week, I had a conversation with someone who just loved the public schools. He thought that if you homeschool your kids, you are doing them a huge disservice. One of his complaints was that homeschooling is not enough like school. The man who was "conversing" with me has actually been around during some of my homeschooling. It is my husband's grandfather, and he lives with my in-laws. We take school work over there as needed because of scheduling issues. He thinks that you can never get school in in 3 hours a day. After all, kids go to school for about 7 hours. Funny thing, I was just at one of the best charter schools we have around here (I am teaching a sign language class there) and there school day is 6 1/2 hours. The schedule for 2nd grade was on the wall. I counted three hours of non academic stuff included in their day. Leaving only 3 1/2 hours of school work.
Anyway, so this morning, when I was reading some of the problems people had with HOD was that it was too much like traditional school. Funny how people see things so differently. Actually, I went to a great Christian school, and I have worked in several public schools, with several different ages, and I must say, one of the things I love about HOD is that it is NOT anything like the traditional schools I have seen.
So, why am I writing this? Just to say that even on our worst days, HOD is the best curriculum I have ever done! My ADHD son would never be able to handle the "regular" textbook approach to learning. I will go over to HSR and write a review this evening. I am on my way out now, but I had to write this before I left.
I think we all really just need to pray against it and pray that what was not meant for good can be used for Good by GOD! And I know that He can do that. 
My son has a way about him that really just smacks you sometimes but it is because he is so spot on funny and he always has this grin to go along with it. So of course I went into the whole well you are mature enough and that is why we do it together and I thought you could understand it thing. So my son blurts out "Ok I get it, teabags, we all have sin inside and the hot water is just the stuff that happens but really it's going to be good tea or bad tea and it has nothing to do with the water. But here is the deal just because I understand it does not mean I am not still a kid." We all just busted up laughing and we laughed so hard we cried practically. It is so true just because they get it does not mean they can't learn just as deep and still be the kid that they really are. I mean if they are kids what is wrong with just letting them be kids for a while. I thought my son really hit the nail on the head. He wants the childlike play because after all he is still a child even if he can get the deep lesson. And the funny thing is they still get the deep lesson when it is fun but they just simply enjoy learning it more. 
The lesson I seem to have to learn over and over again that sometimes less is more even though I am not able to always wrap my brain around it. 