How do you comfort a snake??

For quite some time we've had a ball python that I finally named TNO (The Nameless One) after the boy had left him completely nameless for three years...

Now, meet the newest member of our family:

He's a baby corn snake and as sweet as can be, but as with TNO...I'm completely lost.

I was raised with dogs. Y'know...mammals. They're warm, they're soft, they smile, they whine. A.K.A. You can tell what they do and do not tend to like.

I have house trained. I have taught to sit and stay. I've scratched them behind the ears and told them "good job."

I can't even find his ears! Not that I know if TNO would like being scratched behind ears anyway...It's such a strange transition, haha.