i guess thats a good way to get gets to behave " stop that or ill feed you to the corn snake!" and unless your children are 1.5 times the width of your snake i wouldnt attempt a feed lol. Yeah i have heard these stories and the "wont it eat your children", i laugh and explain to them to look up a picture of a corn snake fully grown (no way they could eat my kids, shame really (Joking ))
some people find it hard to except what you keep as pets no matter if there snakes, birds or hamsters i guess people think a pet is just a cat or a dog which is a shame