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Exposing the nature of the correlational relationship between teachers ’scores on the dimensions of the teaching humor scale for kindergarten teachers and their scores on the dimensions of the classroom control styles scale for kindergarten teachers in light of some variables, which are the experience variable (heights, low experience) and the specialization variable (educational, non- educational), the research sample consisted of 62 kindergarten teachers in kindergarten schools of the eastern governorate, their ages ranged between (30- 45) years, with an arithmetic mean 37.66, and a standard deviation 4.26. The research relied on the following tools: the teaching humor scale for kindergarten teachers, the researcher's preparation, the classroom control patterns for kindergarten teachers, the researcher's preparation, and the research used the relational descriptive approach, and the results resulted in a statistically significant negative correlation at a level of significance 0.01 between the degrees of the teachers. On social humor as one of the dimensions of the educational sense of humor scale and their degrees on the dimension of the authoritarian punitive pattern as one of the dimensions of the class control styles scale for kindergarten teachers, and the presence of a statistically significant positive correlation relationship at a level of significance 0.01 between the degrees of the teachers on the dimension of hostile humor as one of the dimensions of the teaching sense of humor scale and their scores on the dimension of the authoritarian punitive pattern as one of the dimensions of the scale of class control patterns for kindergarten teachers, and the presence of a negative correlational relationship statistically significant at the level of significance 0.05 between the scores of teachers on the dimension of self- defeating humor as one of the dimensions of the teaching sense of humor scale and their scores on the dimension of the protective heuristic. (Published abstract)