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This happens in the episode where everyone prematurely ages, and they are sent through the transporter to make them their "normal" ages. There's no reason given why they couldn't do that all the time.
Even more relevant there was that episode where a transporter accident turns Picard, Guinan, Ro and Kiko into twelve year olds and nobody points out they just discovered transporter induced immortality.
What really gets me about that episode is all of the effected characters immediately want to return to their normal age and nobody says "Hold up, I'm very okay with a couple extra decades of life" or centuries in Guinans case I suppose.
They also forgot about the fact that Barclay was aware during transport meaning that somehow your physical body exists while you're being transported.
Really, the transporters work by power of plot.
Most devices in sci-fi settings do.
True, but it's amazing how much the transport is or is not able to do depending on the episode.
It's more of a literary device than an electronic device.
Everybody except Guinan, she acknowledges childhood was long ago and wants to stay a kid and keep jumping on the bed.
Doesn't Ro kind of linger on enjoying her childhood in a way she couldn't because of the occupation?
And yeah in Futurama, Leela decided to stay a teenager so she could have a childhood with her parents ♥️
That episode is problematic in a lot of ways.
Especially Picard who, you know, has the health thing that accelerates with age or whatever
Let's not even address the fact that transporter enyouthened Picard would presumably still have his cybernetic heart. Was it an adult-sized cyberheart in his kid-sized chest cavity? Did the transporter know how to resize the prosthesis to fit his changed body? So many questions!