House snakes are neat lil guys. We have one, and its actually the first snake that we ever let my daughter hold (supervised of course, she's a little over 2). He was very calm and sweet with her, and basically just chilled and let her hold him. He's never snapped at anything other then a mouse before.
Ours has been a problem shedder, until we recently came up with the brilliant idea to put his hide over his water dish (head slap - DOH!). His last shed was perfect!
Odd to have a problem shedder with house snakes. Ive yet to catch a shed with this girl and all came off full piece.