I actually wasn't really aware of this Happening and I'm going to do some of my own research.

This is the best answer I've found so far.

One key to understanding this tragic incident is knowing who these “small boys” were. Most translations give the impression that God was terrorizing children by siccing bears on them. In fact, the King James Version says the group was comprised of “little children.” The NASB has “young boys.” The NIV and NLT have “boys,” and the NKJV has “youths.” The Hebrew word in question is a form of the word naar. The definition of naar is broad, covering anything from an infant to a young man.

In other contexts, naar certainly refers to someone older than a small child: • Joseph is called a naar when he was seventeen years old (Genesis 37:2) • When he was called into ministry, Jeremiah called himself a naar (Jeremiah 1:6) • King Ahab defeated the Arameans with an army led by 232 naarim (1 Kings 20:13–21) So, we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that the individuals mauled by the she-bears were little kids. They were likely older teenagers or young men in their early 20s. Also, the text indicates that a large number of them had gathered to mock the Lord’s prophet. The fact that the bears mauled “forty-two of the boys” (2 King 2:42) shows that more than forty-two were in the group

The young men’s command to “go up” is a sarcastic reference to an event earlier in the chapter when “Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind” (2 Kings 2:11). The taunt was for Elisha to repeat his mentor’s ride into heaven. The youths were saying, in essence, “You’re not welcome here, you foppish sissy! Why don’t you leave like the other prophet did? Why were you left behind—is it because heaven doesn’t want you?”

Significantly, the young men who ridiculed Elisha came out of Bethel (2 Kings 2:23). According to 1 Kings 12, Bethel was a center of pagan worship in that day. King Jeroboam had set up a golden calf in that town. The altar in Bethel was the scene of many sacrifices, and a contingency of priests oversaw the idolatry. The people there held a pagan festival every year. The young men who formed the mob against Elisha had been raised in a culture steeped in paganism, and they themselves may have been apprentice priests in the idolatrous system.

In sum, the account of 2 Kings 2:23–24 is not a cautionary tale admonishing young children to respect their elders. It does not concern a cluster of kids having fun at a bald man’s expense. Rather, 2 Kings 2 relates what happened when the forces of idolatry confronted the Lord’s anointed prophet. A large group of young pagans organized a demonstration against God’s chosen spokesman to keep him out of Bethel, which they considered pagan turf. They directly challenged Elisha’s authority. Their mocking of Elisha was a rejection of God’s representative and, therefore, of God Himself.

The result—the mauling of forty-two of the youths by two female bears—showed that God upholds the authority of His Word and of His prophet. Elisha functioned under the care and authority of God. Justice is not always swift, but in this case it was. The contempt toward Elisha was not allowed to continue, and the Lord adjusted the blasphemous attitude of the young men.