Jesus was born in Bethlehem as they went there from Nazareth to be with family for the Roman census.

emotional upset is extremely short-lived ..
Foxy,
My experience has always been a good laugh when kids realised that there was no Santa. Goes to show the difference in mentality in our circles !

talking to the Easter Bunny
Paul1405,
Yeah, the Rainbow Serpent & all those creatures that change into rocks or something else would probably have some answers as well.

Indigenous Australia has a rich and unique
belief system centred on the Dreamtime, when
the world was new and fantastic creatures
roamed the land. These include Bunjil the Eagle,
who stopped the sea from rising with his spear.

Tiddalik the Frog, who drank all the water
everywhere, but spat it up after an eel made him laugh.
Aboriginal beliefs feature many such animal spirits,
demonstrating their close affinity with the country
they inhabit and the respect for the wildlife that
sustains them.

Of course, as might be expected, these are fairly
naive and primitive beliefs, and it wasn't until the
arrival of white settlers that Aboriginal Australians
began to adopt proper religions based on more
sophisticated concepts such as pregnant virgins and
snakes promoting fruit-based diets (Adam and Eve).

Nevertheless, even without all the benefits and
technology and diseases of European settlement,
Australian Indigenous people lived fairly contented lives
for many thousands of years, having little contact
with the rest of the world and therefore missing out on
much of the war, genocide and plague that makes history so
much fun.

Some of the major events that the first Australians
never had the chance to enjoy include:

The Hundred Years' War

The Sack of Rome

The murder of Thomas Becket

The Black Death

The world premiere of Titus Andronicus

The time Caligula made his horse a senator

Braveheart

So it can fairly be said that though the Aboriginal
people may have believed themselves to be having a
pretty fun time, they were in danger of becoming
the wallflowers of the modern world, condemned to
miss out on the exciting adventures that the Native
Americans had been having since white men arrived
to give their humdrum lives a bit of spice.

Some Indigenous Australians did worry about this,
standing on the shore late at night, gazing out to
sea, wondering if they would ever know what it was
like to be massacred.

cont'd ...

cont'd ...

"Somewhere out there," they would murmur to
themselves, "is a place where dreams come true.
A place where anyone can be abducted and forcibly
converted to a foreign religion, if they believe
in themselves enough. And someday, they would
swear, "I too will know that feeling."

But that was all about to end. Australia was ready
to enter the modern world, with all its wonders.
"Life in the great southern land would never be the
same.

You can read more in Ben Pobjie's " Error Australis:
The reality recap of Australian History."

Foxy,
Just imagine a chilly night & no clothes or a broken limb or an infection on a hot day etc.
The only dreaming then was about a warm place to sleep or a cool place to rest & wishing the flies would go away !
Imagine that & being left behind by your mob because you were a burden !